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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. — Thomas Sowell

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere. — Ray Bradbury

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand. — Dorothy Parker

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. — Lance Morrow

Civilization is what makes you sick. — Paul Gauguin

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war. — Arthur Helps

For in a declining civilization it is often the old who see furthest and see with youngest eyes. — Olaf Stapledon

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. — Bertrand Russell

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. — Paul Dickson

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. — Franz Boas

Sharing is the secret of civilization. — Josephine Humphreys

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Speech is civilization itself. — Thomas Mann

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations. — Andrew Sarris

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations. — Luiz Bolognesi

As the philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."24 — Karen Armstrong

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. — Fernand Braudel

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. — Victor Hugo

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. — Wendell Berry

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture. — Antonio Tabucchi

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. — Alan Rudolph

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. — Andre Maurois

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. — David Bowie

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. — Mark Twain

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. — Andrew Weil

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end. — Haruki Murakami

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. — Robert A. Heinlein

The English think soap is civilization. — Heinrich Von Treitschke

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is such a thing as too much couth. — S.J Perelman

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine. — Christopher Dutton

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof. — P. J. O'Rourke

Do you think we would become a better civilization if we all took acid? TR: Oh, absolutely. I think that LSD is the genie in the bottle of the world. — Mara Altman

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation. — Ludwig Von Mises

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. — Kobo Abe

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years. — Sonny Rollins

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. — Gregory David Roberts

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? — Mary Baker Eddy

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that — Clifford D. Simak

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

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. — Bill Gates

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men. — Ludwig Von Mises

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt. — Sigmund Freud

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

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff! — Marjane Satrapi

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. — Charles Baudelaire

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power — Robert Greene

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. — Lester R. Brown

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything. — Floriano Martins

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

Civilization is sterilization. — Aldous Huxley

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. — L. Neil Smith

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. — Henri Bergson

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture. — Frank Herbert

There is nothing more fragile than civilization. — Havelock Ellis

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present. — Gilbert Highet

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. — Victor Hugo

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization. — Toba Beta

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable. — Iris Murdoch

This observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization. — Winifred Gallagher

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney

Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization. — David Wong

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. — Theodore Roosevelt

Evans: We don't know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity. — Liu Cixin

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization. — Woodrow Wilson

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. — Reginald Fessenden

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. — Edward L. Bernays

Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering. — Christopher Dutton

Simplicity is the peak of civilization. — Henry David Thoreau

Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose. — Ian C. Esslemont

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. — David Mitchell

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself. — P. J. O'Rourke

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. — Herbert Spencer

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. — Werner Herzog

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. — Sigmund Freud

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman

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

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization. — Tom Robbins

Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex. — Carl Sagan

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George

A civilization is always judged in its decline. — Melvin B. Tolson

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water. — Vanessa Redgrave

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. — Theodore Dalrymple

It's also said that a society's prison system is how best to measure their civilization. If that's so, we're fucked. — Sara Lunsford

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The maturity of every society is reflected in the attitude toward women, upon whom the continuation of mankind depends. Civilization — Deborah Kaple

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. — Michael Tsarion

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him — Jostein Gaarder

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. — Michel Foucault

Specialization is the great evil of civilization. — Wendell Berry