civilization Quotes

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.