Charles Lindbergh Civilization Quotations

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Aviation has struck a delicately balanced world, a world where stability was already giving way to the pressure of new dynamic forces, a world dominated by a mechanical, materialist, Western European civilization.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for what we sell. The consequence is that we must work harder and more hours per day than we should, and in the end have less than what is due to us as our part of the advantages, conveniences and opportunities resulting from advancing civilization.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.