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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite. — Adam Nicolson

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women — Charles Fourier

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. — Lance Morrow

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. — V.S. Naipaul

Or maybe the ugliness is in us.
That's just the way we are.
Underneath the pretense of civilization. — Bethany Griffin

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization! — Bill Walton

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature. — William Harvey

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. — William Morris

Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like. — John Cameron Smith

Handwriting enables civilization. — Toba Beta

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? — Christian Lous Lange

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. — Thomas Sowell

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves. — Michael Crichton

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. — Ariana Franklin

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk. — Will Durant

Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial. — Clarence Darrow

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. — Joyce Carol Oates

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race. — John Ciardi

Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. — Fernando Pessoa

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses. — Gustave Flaubert

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain. — Benjamin Hooks

When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals — John Green

It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. — Randall Terry

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism. — Mercedes Lackey

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake. — Al Gore

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. — Publilius Syrus

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. — Will Durant

When humor goes, there goes civilization. — Erma Bombeck

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. — Vincent Massey

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. — Steven Wright

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization. — Omar N. Bradley

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. — Wallace Stevens

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

I think governments are the cancer of civilization. — Chuck D

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education. — H.G.Wells

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson — H.W. Brands

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil. — Thomas Jefferson

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization. — Arthur Helps

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. — James Robertson

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else ... begin to march us steadily backward. — Patrick Stewart

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey

Africa is the cradle of cosmic civilization. At the fullness of time of Africa, the entire world shall be saved. — Womi

Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization! — Isabella L. Bird

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation. — James C. Scott

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen

The slum is the measure of civilization. — Jacob Riis

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. — Ron Paul

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. — George Wald

To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science. — Liu Cixin

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. — Douglas MacArthur

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own — Jay Griffiths

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. — Julia Child

Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related. — Marianne Williamson

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. — George Orwell

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — Carrie Snow

Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. — Michel Houellebecq

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire

Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other. — James S.A. Corey

Earth civilization had a way to transmit at the level of a Kardashev Type II civilization. — Liu Cixin

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. — Otto Von Bismarck

I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? — Pierre Schaeffer

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? — Thomas Carlyle

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman

We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked. — Jeffrey Rasley

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage

It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. — Isabella L. Bird

Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. — John R. Rice

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding. — Maude Meagher

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words! — Ursula K. Le Guin

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? — Haruki Murakami

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. — Timothy Leary

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
[Libraries on the Front Lines, ALA interview 2011] — Neil Gaiman

"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last." — J. William Fulbright

Civilization itself is housed in the human being. — Nayantara Sahgal

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. — Robert Shapiro

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. — Orson Scott Card

If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. — Leonard Nimoy

Being a noninvasive advanced civilization
was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom. — Toba Beta

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Civilization can never be sustainable. — Derrick Jensen

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. — Mark Twain

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig Von Mises

For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized — Rod Serling

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon