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| The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. | | Sigmund Freud | |
| The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. | | Sigmund Freud | |
| The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. | | Havelock Ellis | |
| The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. | | Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers | | William James | |
| The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself | | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! | | Mark Twain | |
| The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level | | Mark Twain | |
| There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization. | | Albert Schweitzer | |
