Civilization Quotes

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.