Civilization Quote by Ignazio Silone

“On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.”

— Ignazio Silone

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the…

— Joost Meerloo

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

— Horace Mann

Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.

— Paulo Freire

Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are…

— Robert Henri

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

— Jane Addams

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,…

— Anthony Daniels

Institutions of higher education in the United Statesare products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are…

— Yolanda Moses

“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

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave…

— Margaret Mead

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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