Civilization Quote by William Gilmore Simms

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race…

— Kelly Miller

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

— Jacob Needleman

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race…

— Anonymous

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

— Robert E. Howard

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

— L Ron Hubbard

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

— Barack Obama

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

— H. A. L. Fisher

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some…

— Barack Obama

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes…

— John Boyd Orr

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare