Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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