Civilization in a broader sense is a type of society that has been fully developed.The development of such a society is accompanied by progress in various strata of civilization. A progressed society has multiple systems which are in congruence with each other.The word civilization comes from the French word civilisé, which was derived from the Latin term, civilis, meaning civil. Civilization is made up of multiple working and progressively systematic levels, and they include advanced governing states, urbanized and rural developments, a socio-economic hierarchy, and efficient channels of communication.The current progression was not achieved in a few years but has significantly taken millions of years, the earliest known civilizations occurred in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), Indus Valley (present-day Pakistan), Norte Chico (present-day Lima, Peru), Ancient Egyptians, Jiahu (present-day Henan, China), Ain Ghazal (present-day Amman, Jordan), Çatalhöyük (present-day Turkey) and San People of Zambia, Africa. So without further ado, go through these brilliant yet captivating civilization quotes to know more.Short Civilization QuotesThese short quotations about civilization will surely make you think about it profoundly, so let’s dig in!“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”- Khalil Gibran.“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.”- Pearl S. Buck.“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”- Robert Frost.“For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.”- Margaret Mead.“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”- Thomas Sowell.“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson.“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”- Mark Twain.“In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it.”- Carl Sagan.“Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.”- Mark Twain.“Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.”- L. Neil Smith.“All over the world, the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.”- Gerald Durrell.“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”- Robert Green Ingersoll.“If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.”- Ludwig von Mises.“The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.”- Anatol Rapoport.“The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.”- Anthony Gregory.Interesting Civilization QuotesThe history of our civilization is absolutely spellbinding and full of wisdom, so go through these quotes and learn further.“Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.”- Oscar Wilde.“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.”- Thomas Sowell.“Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.”- Herbert.“In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.”- Willis R. Whitney.“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”- H. G. Wells.“Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man’s human existence.”- Ludwig von Mises.“Civilization is like a musical composition, the individual who lives it, is like an artist, like a performer. He has not created his civilization, it is given to him, but his art enables him to reproduce it and to transform it in an individual and peculiar way.”- A.A. Goldenweiser.“If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.”- Abdelaziz Bouteflika.“Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.”- Charles Lindbergh.“As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.”- Abraham Joshua Heschel.“We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.”- Frederick Lenz.“The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.”- Helen Keller.“A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.”- Meridel Le Sueur.“We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man – his mind and his psyche.”- Sybil Leek.Civilization Quotes You Didn’t Know(Find more enthralling quotes on civilization, the cultivation of societies, and more!)The following quotes will surely provide you with a different perspective on looking at history.“I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we’re here. And we’re trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.”- Serj Tankian.“Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”- Henry Cabot Lodge.“Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.”- Aldous Huxley.“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt."…Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch…"- John Geddes, A Familiar Rain.“God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”- Aldous Huxley.“We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.”- Carl Sagan.“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”- Carl Sagan.“We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.”- George Will.“The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”- Simone Weil.“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.”- Frederick Lenz.“If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.”- Anita Roddick.“I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.”- Aiden Wilson Tozer.“Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it’s due to a lack of rational empathy, of understanding that if you don’t have equality in your society, the conflicts you breed (whether internally or externally) will eventually cause its collapse.”- Chris Kluwe.Best Civilization QuotesThese superb yet truthful quotations about history and civilization speak for themselves, take a look.“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.“We - what we need is a dialogue among civilizations. And we need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.”- Dr. Manmohan Singh.“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”- Ayn Rand.“The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.”- James Hillman.“But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness–each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked–each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.”- Herbert Butterfield.“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.”- Daniel Webster.“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”- Jacques Ellul.“If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.”- Clifford D. Simak.“The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.”- George Bancroft.“We’re a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones… nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.”- Diane Paulus.“We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.”- Lyndon LaRouche.“The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.”- Andre Malraux.“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”- Robert E. Howard.“If civilization is in danger today… it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to be more dangerous than the most brazen leaders because everything is done with their cooperation.”- Anatoly Kuznetsov.“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”- Will Rogers.“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”- Gene Roddenberry.
Civilization in a broader sense is a type of society that has been fully developed.
