Quotes About Civilization

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

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

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Speech is civilization itself.

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

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