civilization - quotes

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959

was an US architect

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Cyril (Vernon) Connolly, 1903-1974

was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Amos Bronson Alcott, 1799-1888

was an US educator and Transcendentalist

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

( “Table Talk”, 1877 )