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Quotes about Civilization

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.
- Napoleon Hill
Of all the ages of civilization, this is the most favorable for the development of the imagination, because it is an age of rapid change.
- Napoleon Hill
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
- Carl Sagan
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.
- Alfred Nobel
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
- Victor Hugo
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
- Victor Hugo