Civilization Quote by Haile Selassie

“The wellbeing of humans has not improved over history.”

— FastReads

[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.”

— Jennifer Ott

“And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries,…

— Jack London

Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence…

— Kenneth Clark

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly…

— John Fowles

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge,…

— Charles Lindbergh

“Throughout history, while day-to-day life has changed, humanity hasn't.”

— Rachel Harris

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

“It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living…

— Alexis Carrel