Civilization Quotes

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet." "We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us." "Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest" "For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful" "Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work" "The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law" "The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government" "A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful" "If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays" "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds" "Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late" "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization" "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "Human freedom is an artifact of the organization of human society. "