Civilization Quote

“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”

By: Lord Macaulay

Civilization is a Movement

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”

By: Arnold Toynbee

Path of Civilization

“The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”

By: Elbert Hubbard

In the World Today

“Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is fool.”

By: Robert Hutchins

Civilization

“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.”

By: Albert Einstein

Civilization Lie in

“Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people.”

By: Albert Camus

Our Civilization

“We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock crowing and the morning star.”

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilize

“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and civilize me and I can’t stand it.”

By: Mark Twain

Lifeblood of Civilization

“Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood of real civilization.”

By: G. M. Trevelyan

Quote about Civilization

“A concerted effort to remedy the blunders and check the practical joking of God.”

By: H. L. Mencken

Civilizations Die

“Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”

By: J. W. Krutch

Quotation about Civilization

“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”

By: Omar Bradley

Desert Within

“As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”

By: Albert Camus