1,222 Quotes About Civilization

  • Author Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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    Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

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  • Author Alan Bennett
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    It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

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  • Author August Bebel
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    Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

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  • Author Bruce Beehler
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    There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there.

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  • Author Catharine Beecher
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    ... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

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