Quotes About Civilization

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.