~ Civilization Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

Harry Golden

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Isaac Asimov

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

W. H. Auden

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

John Ciardi

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.

Alfred North Whitehead

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

Northrop Frye

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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