Winston Churchill Quotes

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Civilization develops man, and if he is, according to his whole character and destiny, made for development, civilization is his truly natural state …

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

If there is education, there will be everything in life. Government can make roads, hospitals and also construct school buildings. But your homes can brighten up only if your children are educated. I am confident that if we focus on education, our society will certainly develop.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

My concern is the holistic development of society. No one should go back, everyone must move forward. Enough time has been spent going backwards; now let us pledge to stride ahead, whether it's in education, health, agriculture or education of our daughters. This Government belongs to the poor. It is to support the destitute.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.