Civilization Quotes

"Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge." "The greatest advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur " "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" "Society itself is the work of minds seeking to master the mystery of man" "A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean." "No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." "The family is the nucleus of civilization." "Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all " "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office" "Civilization is the process of setting man free from men" "Our civilization depends critically on the idea of at least one positive truth" "The trail of the human serpent is over everything." "The foundation of empire is art and science " "We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls" "We owe our civilization to the curiosity of our ancestors, who never stopped questioning."