Civilization Quotes

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.

It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.