Brotherhood Quote by Henry George

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

— Victor Hugo

To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in…

— Immanuel Kant

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral…

— Mary Ritter Beard

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.

— Anatol Rapoport

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

“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively…

— Anne Rice

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act outside what…

— Robert A. Nisbet

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system…

— Marc Gafni

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so…

— Anonymous

“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer