1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists...

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.