Civilization Quote by Gertrude Stein

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by…

— Charles Lindbergh

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

— Mark Twain

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

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

— Mark Twain

There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim…

— Howard Zinn