Civilization

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

- Ayn Rand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

- Sigmund Freud Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

- Christopher Dawson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

- Sigmund Freud Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

- Arthur Erickson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

- Dean Inge Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

- Arthur Erickson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man

- George Meredith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

- Otto Bismarck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A general definition of civilization a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

- Alfred North Whitehead Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

- Sigmund Freud Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

- Arthur Keith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

- Cordell Hull Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

- Max Lerner Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't know if we should use the word 'war,' ... Now we are faced with a conflict of a completely new nature, a conflict that is attempting to destroy human rights, freedom, the dignity of man, and I believe that everything must be done to safeguard these values of civilization.

- Jacques Chirac Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

- Henry Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He, I know--for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.

- H. G. Wells Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

- Martin Luther King Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

- Arnold Toynbee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Women are a great source of strength in creating human civilization, ... The promotion of gender equality and protection of women's rights impact on the immediate interests of women and decide whether human beings can fully develop their potential and pursue a better life.

- Hu Jintao Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

- Amos Bronson Alcott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

- Pearl Buck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

- Pearl Buck Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes