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Quotations by Subject: Civilization
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888), Table Talk (1877)
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.: Bourke Cockran
The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.: Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Letter to Dr. William Allan Nielson, January 9, 1940
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), The Dance of Life
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.: Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.: Jane Addams (1860 - 1935), Speech, Honolulu (1933)
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.: Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.: Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.: Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)


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