Civilization Quotes

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Death, Spiritual

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert Einstein

War, Earth, Perhaps

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Nation, State

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

Country, America, Between

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama

History, Long, Rich

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Person, Democracy

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Idea, Western

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen Keller

May, Youth, While

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

Work, Society, Team

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

End, Human, Die

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Women, Thought

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

Peace, Science, Live

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

True, Learned, Others

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Easy, While

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

Men, Society, Free

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

Nor, Number, Existence

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson

Food, Law, Said

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

Men, Morality, Survive

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles

Women, Made, Order

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby

Best, Rules, Rewrite

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

Government, Science, Greatest

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud

Time, Rock, Angry

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
Barack Obama

Time, History, War

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman

Great, Government, Self

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo

Smile, Human, Jesus

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud

Impossible, Instinct, Overlook

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein

Politeness, Non, Sine

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