Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes

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.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

Civilization begins with distillation

I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

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

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

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

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

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

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

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

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 does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Change brings opportunity.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

It is a changing world with changing opportunities.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

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

While the United States of today is not the United States of yesterday there are unmistakable indications that she is also not the United States of tomorrow.