Civilization Quotes

Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.

We didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next.

Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

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