453 quotes found
“Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.”
“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
“Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.”
“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
“Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.”
“Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.”
“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”
“The human race has improved everything except the human race.”
“A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.”
“There is such a thing as too much couth.”
“We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.”
“The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.”
“Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.”
“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.”
“So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and di...”
“We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement wit...”
“Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.”
