Patricia Briggs Quotes

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

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

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.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

The progress made in refinement of manners and morals seems to have gone on simultaneously with the improvement in arts, manufactures and commerce. It moved slowly at first, but has been constantly increasing in velocity…. we are a much better people than we were then, better instructed, more sincere and kind-hearted, less gross and brutal, and have fewer of the concomitant vices of a less civilized state.

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.

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.

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

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

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

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

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

Civilization begins with distillation

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.