(1032 quotes found)
“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power”
Henry George
“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation”
James Madison
“It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind”
Henry Louis Mencken
“We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket”
George Carlin
“(Mankind) is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell”
George Orwell
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization”
George Bernard Shaw
“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
Albert Einstein
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Ayn Rand
