Civilization Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.