Civilization Quote by Samuel Noah Kramer

So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else…

— P. J. O'Rourke

One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization…

— C. S. Lewis

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu!

— Ezra Pound

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu;

— Anonymous

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until…

— Henry James

“They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past…

— Gilbert Highet

“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”

— Georges Clemenceau

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of…

— Narendra Modi

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held…

— Felix Frankfurter