Civilization Quotes and Sayings

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Syrus

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform… Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life.  Otherwise it would die of civilization.
- Edmond

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization.  But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
- Alfred North Whitehead

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
- Edmond

K is for “Kenghis Khan.”  He was a very nice person.  History has no record of him.  There is a moral in that, somewhere.
- Harlan Ellison

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
- George Carlin

Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
- Carol Matthau

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
- George W. Bush

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
- Helen Keller

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