Advancement Quote by Tom Robbins

“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are…

— Roger Scruton

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

— James Joyce

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

— Octavio Paz

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

— Gutzon Borglum

Civilization has always been a bust.

— Peter Fonda

One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in the past,…

— Ross Douthat

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

— Mark Twain

As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not…

— Lewis Schiff

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

— Thomas Sowell

Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender,…

— Lewis H. Lapham