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Civilization QuotesFamous Civilization quotes by popular authors such as Arnold J. Toynbee, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elbert Hubbard, Alfred North Whitehead, Jose Ortega y Gasset and others.
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[highlight-text]Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
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[highlight-text]There is such a thing as too much couth.
S. J. Perelman
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[highlight-text]The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Harvey Allen
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[highlight-text]If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
Charles L. Lucas
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[highlight-text]The human race has improved everything except the human race.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Nations like individuals live and die; but civilization cannot die.
Giuseppe Mazzini
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[highlight-text]A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
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[highlight-text]Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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[highlight-text]Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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[highlight-text]A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Harry Golden
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[highlight-text]To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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[highlight-text]The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Isaac Asimov
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[highlight-text]Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
W. H. Auden
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[highlight-text]A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
John Ciardi
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[highlight-text]Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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[highlight-text]To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Northrop Frye
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[highlight-text]We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]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.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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[highlight-text]So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]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.
Jacob Bronowski
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[highlight-text]We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond and on these faces there are no smiles.
Hilaire Belloc