Avenues Quote by John L. Phillips

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most…

— Margery Wilson

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

— John D. Rockefeller

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience…

— Arthur Keith

“Civilization is faces, "appearances": when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

— Andy Rooney

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

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

“Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

— George Bernard Shaw

This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do…

— Anonymous