‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
Civilization Quotes
Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
All civilizations are born to die. Those fortunate enough to live in one should study the past to learn from its errors, and with the wisdom of hindsight strive to keep at bay for a while the drifting sands of decay.
The origin of civilization is man’s determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
Mankind’s struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
True Civilisation does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
What a country (Syria) this is! I fear I shall spend the rest of my life travelling in it. Race after race, one on top of the other, the whole land strewn with the mighty relics of them. We in Europe are accustomed to think that civilization is an advancing flood that has gone steadily […]
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Lock-and-key, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
