(1032 quotes found)
“What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
Ayn Rand
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
John Muir
“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
Will Rogers
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
“Prejudices are the props of civilization”
Andre Gide
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.”
Stephen Wright
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”
Abraham Flexner
