Civilization Quotes

"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."

Arthur Keith

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."

Victor Hugo

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."

Freeman Dyson

"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."

Samuel Johnson

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Civilization must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity."

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

Carl Sagan

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Will Durant

"The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."

Pearl S. Buck

"Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."

Erma Bombeck

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

Will Durant

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

Arnold Toynbee

"The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilization of any country."

"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization."

L. Frank Baum

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

“Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”

Allan Savory

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

Frank Lloyd Wright