Advantage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of…

— Jack Donovan

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of…

— Thomas Huxley

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life…

— Stewart Udall

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement…

— Paul Hawken

“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain…

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

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

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation as we…

— Owen Jones

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

— Nayantara Sahgal