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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
— Thomas Sowell
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
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
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
— David Bowie
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
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
Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.
— Ludwig Von Mises
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
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 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
Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.
— Toba Beta
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
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
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
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
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
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