Quotes about Civilization
What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.
— Karl Barth
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
— John Adams
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
— Henepola Gunaratana
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
— Dennis Prager
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
— GK Chesterton
When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
— Ayn Rand
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
— Mark Twain
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
— Herman Melville
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle