Quotes About Civilization

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

- Will Durant

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

- Jane Addams

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

- Oscar Wilde

The real enemy of civilization is not climate change, but bad education.

- Bjorn Lomborg

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

- H.G. Wells

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

- W.E.B. Du Bois

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

- Albert Schweitzer

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