Quotes About Civilization

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

What man is, only history tells.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

What man is, only his history tells.

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.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.