Civilization Quotes

What man calls civilization – always results in deserts.

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society… A penalty on the other hand is intended altogether to prevent the thing punished.

We are caught up in a civilization having immense drive but no direction, marvelous capacity to get there, but no idea where it is going.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country or even my race. I think it probable that civilization somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead.

I have a friend who was said to have read the Iliad ‘to make him fierce.’ I confess that I prefer to do so to keep myself civilized. For the more I live in these warlike surroundings, the more thankful I am for all the traditions of the classic culture compared to these which journalists […]

Civilization is a parasite on the man with a hoe.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.