Civilization Quotes - Quotations and Proverbs on Civilization

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment, and increases the capacity of service. – M. K. Gandhi
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe. – H. G. Wells
Civilization – the victory of persuasion over force. – Palmer Wright
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. – Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams
Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic. – M. K. Gandhi
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. – Mazzini
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. – Eugene v. Debs
Civilization, like empires, fall, not so much because of the strength of the enemy outside as through the weakness and decay within. – Jawaharlal Nehru
The civilization of on e epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher
The aim of civilization is to make politics superfluous and science and art indispensable. – Arthur Schnitzler
It is only uncivilized world which would worship civilization. – Henry s. Haskins
While civilization is the body, culture is the soul; while civilization is the result of knowledge and great painful researches in diverse fields, culture is the result of wisdom. – Shri Prakash
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. – Will Durant
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. – Lord Macaulay
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. – Arnold Toynbee

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