Century Quote by Leopold Sedar Senghor

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one…

— Sting

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

— Edward Abbey

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model…

— Arthur Erickson

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of…

— Louis Kronenberger

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The…

— Cyril Connolly

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

— John Fowles

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion…

— Herbert Marcuse