1,222 Quotes About Civilization

The lower the animal, the more selfish it is - higher animals are selfless animals, they are the real humans.

A city is a right place to build a business but not a right place to build a home.

A city has no sense, no sentiment, no soul.

Reason may be the road to progress, but it's warmth that makes that progress fit for the humans.

On the odyssey of kindness will the fabric of civilization unfold.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

In a world of rampant lying, where so many lies are used to inflame passions and justify false grievances, the indiscriminate pursuit of justice leads sooner or later to insanity, mass murder, and the ruin of entire civilizations. Therefore, those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the unequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.

I cannot think who my residents hurt but how I can give them tools to remain on the right side of civilization.