Civilization Quotes

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.