Quotes About Civilization

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

The cleanest civilization I've ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Now we are not much more moral than the animals. We are only held down by the whips of society. If society said today, "I will not punish you if you steal," we should just make a rush for each other's property. It is the policeman that makes us moral. It is social opinion that makes us moral, and really we are little better than animals. We understand how much this is so in the secret of our own hearts. So let us not be hypocrites.