Civilization

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CIVILIZATION: The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. (Unknown Source)

CIVILIZATION: The onset of agriculture and the emergence of village life was civilization, itself (Peter Turchin, Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)

CIVILIZATION: Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

CIVILIZATION: Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. (Arnold Toynbee, British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

CIVILIZATION: If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt. (J. B. Hughes, Australian-British developer and politician, 1817-1881)

CIVILIZATION: If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. (Arthur Goldberg, U.S. statesman, jurist of the U.S. Court, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1908-1990)

CIVILIZATION: The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops -- no, but the kind of man the country turns out. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)