Quotes about Civilization

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

Civilization depends on morality.

What lies between these two ends, these 'last things', is the world, our world, the comprehensible world which has been given us.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.