civilization doesn’t separate us from nature, Ted…

“[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if…

— Anne Leckie

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

— Carl Sagan

The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if…

— Ann Leckie

“The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There is no such thing as a world without combat, no civilization which doesn't start off by laying down the rules for relations between…

— Henning Mankell

“Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it…

— Bill Moyers

“And you don’t like my saying that, but here’s the truth: luxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of…

— Ann Leckie

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

— Carl Jung

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

— Julian Assange

“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most…

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

— Judith Ellen Foster

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz