Civilization Quote by Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

— Lester R. Brown

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to…

— Charles Eisenstein

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

Great civilizations have annihilated themselveswhen the development of their spiritual wisdom lagged far behind their scientific technology. We need to walk softly, for though…

— Mary Summer Rain

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

— William Harvey

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

— Dirk Benedict

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes,…

— Cordell Hull

...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing…

— Alan Watts