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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
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Or maybe the ugliness is in us. That's just the way we are.
Underneath the pretense of civilization. — Bethany Griffin
Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.
— Hank Hanegraaff
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
— Bill Walton
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
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
— Emile Zola
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
The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.
— Michael Crichton
Artists are the radical voice of civilization.
— Paul Robeson
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
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
— Gerald Durrell
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
— John Ciardi
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
— Joan Collins
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
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
— Ellsworth Huntington
Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.
— Mercedes Lackey
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
— Ken Blackwell
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.
— Roscoe Pound
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
— Shamcher Bryn Beorse
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
— Bill Mauldin
Who today remembers that gasoline, the fuel of modern civilization, originated as yet another invention in search of a use?
— Jared Diamond
Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.
— Jacqueline Patricks
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
— Vincent Massey
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
— Lester R. Brown
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
— Bertrand Russell
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
— Napoleon Hill
The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.
— Frank Herbert
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
— David Bowie
The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.
— Albert Schweitzer
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
— Aharon Appelfeld
Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance. — Toba Beta
We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
— Frederick Lenz
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
— Camille Paglia
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.
— Isabella L. Bird
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
— Roger Zelazny
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
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
Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' are synonyms.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
— Nayantara Sahgal
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
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
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
— Al Gore
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
Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!
— Isabella L. Bird
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
— Arthur Helps
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
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
— Omar N. Bradley
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
— Jim Harrison
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
— Robert Shapiro
Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.
— James C. Scott
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
