Civilization Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

— Stuart J. Russell

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

— Frank Herbert

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

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

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

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

— Jane Addams

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession…

— Sigmund Freud