“Civilization totters,” say the pessimists. “But it totters steadily onward,” cheerfully respond the men of optimistic mind.
Civilization Quotes
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
Civilized nations are ones that simply can’t endure wrongs or injustice except at home.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Jungle people fight to live; civilized people live to fight.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
How encouraging it would be to see the germ of civilization, rooted and grounded in hope, thus arise as it were by magic, and raising new feelings in the native mind, to humanize the barren desert. Nor would it at all be over-stepping the bounds of probability to expect, that within the short period of […]
Civilizations fall; cultures are exterminated.
