Civilization Quote by Herbert Spencer

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs.…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

— Anonymous

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

— Anodea Judith

“The problem with all of this, as historians advise us, is that the institutionalization of the systems that produce the values upon which a…

— Butler Shaffer

“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting themselves to…

— Frank L. DeSilva

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.…

— Anonymous

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

— George Bancroft

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its…

— Roger Scruton

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.

— Octavia Butler

Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against…

— Emma Goldman

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until…

— Carroll Quigley

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke