Civilization Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

— Edward Abbey

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return…

— Lin Yutang

Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that…

— Peter Drucker

Have I said clearly enough that the Community we created is not an end in itself? It is a process of change, continuing in…

— Jean Monnet

The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really…

— Anonymous

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

— Milton Friedman

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

— Milton Friedman

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of…

— Louis Kronenberger