1,222 Quotes About Civilization

She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

Industry is not the mark of progress - compassion, reason and self-reliance are.

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Technological progression can lead to or be a sign of cultural regression.

But he saw now that he must remain alone, a "Liberal," scorned by all the noisier prophets for refusing to be a willing cat for the busy monkeys of either side. But at worst, the Liberals, the Tolerant, might in the long run preserve some of the arts of civilization, no matter which brand of tyranny should finally dominate the world.

AI is the transformer of civilization.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.