“ The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crim… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Withou… Alfred North Whitehead
“ A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace. Alfred North Whitehead
“ Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. Fernand Braudel
“ We sleep soundly in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would harm us"Orwell cited Kipling's phrase "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep… George Orwell
“ The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its o… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I woul… James A. Michener
“ Self as such was not normal ..will be like the Justice, which lost its wings !! Both are rivals for the same man .. Hesham Nebr
“ What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation. Terence McKenna
“ A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Ariel Durant
“ In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane. Yukichi Fukuzawa
“ In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“ What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. Mark Pesce
“ We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. Carl Sagan
“ [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East h… Daniel Quinn
