Quotes about Civilization

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

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.

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.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.