Alive Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element…

— Alec-Tweedie

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and…

— Indira Gandhi

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that…

— African Spir

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

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 is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

— Robert E. Howard

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

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

— William Butler Yeats

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which…

— Lord Chesterfield

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

— Frank Herbert

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

— Andy Rooney