More quotations tagged with “civilization”
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
—Havelock Ellis
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
—Bourke Cockran
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
—Aristotle
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
—Amos Bronson Alcott