Robert E. Howard Quotes

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards

modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail. But civilization can serve man both for good as well as for evil purposes. Experience shows that it has invariably brought great dividends to those who use it for good purposes while it has always brought incalculable harm and damnation to those who use it for evil purposes

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

I love talking about space, our society, and what the future holds for us as a civilization.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the [Ancient] Greeks?

A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,—a dweller in caves, or on trees, like an ape, a cannibal, an eater of pounded snails, worms, and offal,—a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.

It is common to think of our own time as standing on the apex of human history.

Nobody can stop the progress of history.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Society is changing constantly, and changing faster than we think.

Commerce is the great civilizer.