Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
- Alexander Meiklejohn
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
- Bertrand Russell
Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
- Clara Lucas Balfour
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.
- James G Daly
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
- Leonard Sidney Woolf
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendall Holmes
Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.
- R P Lebret
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
- Thomas Carlyle
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
- W R Whitney
Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
- Will Durant
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
- Will Durant
You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war, they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
- Woodrow Wilson
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
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
