Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

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

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

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.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.