Census Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A nation’s level of civilization can be measured by the way it treats its oldest and weakest citizens.”

— Hendrik Groen

“One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.”

— Abe Kōbō

“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.”

— Shlomo Sand

“Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.”

— Vernor Vinge

“A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a…

— Leigh Brackett

“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.”

— Fernand Braudel

“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality…

— Louis L'Amour

“... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features—eternal human nature.”

— Kató Lomb

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the measure of a country isn't in how its richest citizens fare, but…

— Abigail Reynolds