Civilization Quotes

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
- Leonard Sidney Woolf

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

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
- Clara Lucas Balfour

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
- Bertrand Russell

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
- Alexander Meiklejohn