Civilization Quote by Ko Wen-je

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former…

— Steven Erikson

Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.

— Arthur Kemp

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

— Ludwig von Mises

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than…

— Cynthia Daignault

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

— Herb Kawainui Kane

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to…

— Walter Bagehot