Century Quote by Will Durant

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

— Lucy Freeman

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying…

— Will Durant

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources…

— Marilynne Robinson

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.”

— Sister Nivedita

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

— Dorothy Parker

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future,…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock