Adventure Quote by Kurt Hahn

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

— Will Durant

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

— Henry David Thoreau

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

— Steve Allen

“Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of…

— Sigmund Freud

“Will and Wheel (The Sonnet) Where there is a will, there is a wheel. Where there is intent, there is upliftment. Where there is…

— Abhijit Naskar

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

— Alfred North Whitehead

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a…

— Ben Jonson

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,…

— Luther Standing Bear