Civilization Quotes

"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. " "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons" "It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste" "Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself." "I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding." "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it a varnish of conventionalities hiding his barbaric core" "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos" "Civilization is, among other things, the process by which animals are turned into men." "Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function" "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."