Civilization Quotes

What an exciting challenge! Civilization is not just towering buildings or technological achievements. It's the story of humanity, its constant pursuit of development, to transcend the limits of the impossible, to build a better world. Every innovation, every idea, every step forward is a brick in the edifice of this great civilization, which still has so much to discover and invent.

Enter the world of ideas that shaped human civilization, and contemplate the visions of the minds that built it, as captured in these illuminating quotes.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous....
Quote by Margaret Thatcher: Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight....
Quote by Elon Musk: The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quit...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and t...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements....
Quote by Christian D. Larson: To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior charact...
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisatio...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, a...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us....
Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts....
Quote by William Shakespeare: Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way....
Quote by Mark Twain: I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it th...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing....
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can re...
Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own....
Quote by Kahlil Gibran: Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet....
Quote by William James: Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities h...
Quote by Bill Gates: Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in al...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from th...
Quote by Winston Churchill: Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears...
Quote by Victor Hugo: I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will mak...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the stan...
Quote by George Orwell: To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civi...
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue ...
Quote by George Orwell: To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the...
Quote by Victor Hugo: If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother....
Quote by Barack Obama: As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater...
Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citize...
Quote by Thomas Sowell: Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be ...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded ...
Quote by William James: The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our c...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleas...
Quote by Ray Bradbury: Reading is at the center of our lives.  The library is our brain.  Without the library, you have no ...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His cultur...
Quote by Ray Bradbury: Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge....
Quote by William James: The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is f...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest....
Quote by Will Rogers: There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread....
Quote by George Orwell: [A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having d...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, un...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty....
Quote by H. L. Mencken: For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriousl...
Quote by Winston Churchill: The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been ...
Quote by Victor Hugo: Art moves. Hence its civilizing power....
Quote by Winston Churchill: Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling...