I have known Nature. I have known Civilization…

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

— Galileo Galilei

I oppose preserving civilization because I have a better chance of getting laid in a post-apocalyptic world.

— Anonymous

Back before our civilization despised itself, we applauded tough men. But you can't produce tough men - or honorable women - without tough love.…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

“What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so…

— George Wharton James

“Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is a fine…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk…

— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr

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

— Paul Dickson

Nations are reorienting toward the national interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. The evidence…

— Michael Shellenberger

My American undergraduate education probably gave me a better idea of the fundamentals of what European civilization is about, better than the undergraduate education…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d…

— Terry Pratchett

“A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.”

— John Derbyshire

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in…

— Herbert Spencer

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

— Edward Abbey

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

— Andre Malraux