Civilization Quotes

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

The winds of time eventually turn them into the tools of industrial civillisation. It’s never unscathed.