Civilization Quote by Sydney J. Harris

One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do…

— King Hussein I

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as…

— Henry George

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

— Daniel H. Pink

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

— Larry Niven

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

— Richard Flanagan

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

— Dean Koontz

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

— Richard Rorty

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that…

— Martin Jacques

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

— Alexander Pushkin

“Western Civilization is in the crisis it is because we have sacrificed more profound values than the immediate and quantifiable consequences we tend to…

— Butler Shaffer

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

— Li Hongzhi