|
|
| A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices. |
| Ayn Rand |
|
| A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. |
| Samuel Johnson |
|
| All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution |
| Havelock Ellis |
|
| All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. |
| Albert Einstein |
|
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. |
| Oscar Wilde |
|
| As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
|
|
| Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of Civilization. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
|
| Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos |
| Will Durant |
|
| Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. |
| Will Durant |
|
| Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. |
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
|
| Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities |
| Mark Twain |
|
| Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity |
| Will Durant |
|
|
|
| Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. |
| Ayn Rand |
|
| Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. |
| Timothy Leary |
|
|
|
| Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest |
| Emile Zola |
|
| Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will |
| Winston Churchill |
|
| Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. |
| Richard Bach |
|
