Civilization Quote by Meridel Le Sueur

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

— Aldous Huxley

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

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so…

— Anonymous

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

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body…

— Frances Perkins

The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that…

— Albert J. Nock

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

— Steve Allen

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

— Frank Herbert

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson