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.
Toynbee Arnold 1889-1975
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
Trevelyan G.M. 1876-1962
English Social History
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization.
Whitehead Alfred North 1861-1947
Introduction to Mathematics
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them