Civilization Quotes

When humor go's, there go's civilization.

— Erma Bombeck

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

— Henri Bergson

“Honesty shakes the foundation of civilization.”

— Christina Dodd

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Speech is civilization itself.

— Thomas Mann

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

There is such a thing as too much couth.

— S. J. Perelman

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

— Marie Stopes

Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.

— Jonathan Miles

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

— Nancy Pelosi

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

— Victor Hugo

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that…

— Jacques Hadamard

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

— John Ralston Saul

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much…

— Booker T. Washington

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

— Max Lerner

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain…

— Mary Baker Eddy

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization…

— Hugh Hefner

“Revenge is a human trait, one that has been the cause of the destruction of civilisations many times over. But the goblins…

— Count Anton Dance of the Goblins

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative…

— Ralph Adams Cram

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to…

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally…

— N.K. Jemisin

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill.…

— Al Gore

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting…

— Henry Miller

“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at…

— Carol Lynn Pearson

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become…

— Carl Sagan

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a…

— Margaret Halsey

As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures,…

— Ashok Gangadean

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true…

— Frank Knox

“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge…

— Will Durant

“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of…

— Jared Diamond

I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that…

— Gilberto Gil

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander…

— Arthur Koestler