Quotes by Civilization In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all. Apsley Cherry-Garrard wells civilization people The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. Ariana Franklin path law civilization A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Ariel Durant women memorable civilization Man, not the earth, makes civilization. Ariel Durant earth men civilization Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. Aristotle issues spring civilization Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion. Arno C. Gaebelein christian men civilization Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold J. Toynbee umpires civilization two Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. Arnold J. Toynbee murder suicide civilization Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet. Arnold J. Toynbee ifs-and civilization believe On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole. Arnold J. Toynbee creative loss civilization Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two. Arnold J. Toynbee class war civilization I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. Arnold J. Toynbee dies civilization believe Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. Arthur C. Clarke maturity character civilization To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. Arthur Compton religious teacher civilization Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below. Arthur Conan Doyle spring men civilization Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. Arthur Erickson technology artist civilization There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization... Arthur Erickson artist attitude civilization What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. Arthur Erickson preoccupation men civilization Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. Arthur Helps tolerance real civilization The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. Arthur Helps appreciation war civilization «56789101112131415»