Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Civilization Quotes
CivilizationCyclesOptimismPessimismProgress The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
CivilizationHuman NatureImpulsesNatureRenewal The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.
CivilizationConflictHistoryPower DynamicsSociety Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
CivilizationConflictLeadershipPower DynamicsSociety One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
ApocalypseCivilizationHumanityNuclearWar I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
CivilizationMoralityNobilityProgress While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
CivilizationHuman NatureIndividual RightsPropertySociety The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
CivilizationDependenceProgressScienceTechnology We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
CivilizationCultural DevelopmentEducationPrioritiesValue This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
CivilizationConsumerismExcessSociety Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
ChangeCivilizationDevelopmentGrowthProgress The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
CivilizationEducationHonorLife SkillsValue Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
BeautyCivilizationHuman ProgressProper DwellingSecurity The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
CivilizationCritical ThinkingHero WorshipMilitaryProgress There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.
CivilizationEnergyHuman AchievementProgressTechnology Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
CivilizationEqualityFreedomOpportunity Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
CivilizationEccentricitySanitySocietyTolerance A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
