Civilization quotes

Bronowski Jacob 1908-1974

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

Ellis Havelock 1859-1939

Little Essays of Love and Virtue

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882

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

Golden Harry 1896-1976

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

Keller Helen 1880-1968

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.

Lucas Charles L.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859

Essays ... „Milton"

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965

Our Betters

The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence.

Ortega y Gasset José 1883-1955

La Rebelión de las Masas

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Reik Theodor 1888-1969

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Rogers Will 1879-1935

You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

The Conquest of Happiness

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Stanton Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

Toqueville Alexis de 1805-1859

De la Démocratie en Amérique

Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habytually live by the chase.

Toynbee Arnold 1889-1975

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Toynbee Arnold 1889-1975

Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.

Toynbee Arnold 1889-1975

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.