Civilization Quotes

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

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 sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
- Woodrow Wilson

You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war, they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
- Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
- Will Durant

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
- W R Whitney

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
- Thomas Carlyle

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

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendall Holmes