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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like.
— John Cameron Smith
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
— Eugene V. Debs
Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses.
— Gustave Flaubert
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
— George Wald
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
— Jay Griffiths
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
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Civilization can never be sustainable.
— Derrick Jensen
One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.
— Booker T. Washington
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
The slum is the measure of civilization.
— Jacob Riis
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