Children Quote by William James Will Durant

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually…

— Will Durant

“Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts – between individuals in economic…

— Will Durant

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next…

— Milan Kundera

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is…

— Ayn Rand

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its…

— Roger Scruton

Civilization itself is housed in the human being.

— Nayantara Sahgal

We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As…

— Jacque Fresco

“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the…

— Winston Churchill