Civilization Quote by Anonymous

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

— Anodea Judith

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind

— Tennessee Williams

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience…

— Arthur Keith

Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more…

— Ai Weiwei

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

— Octavio Paz

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of…

— Jack Donovan

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

— Ralph Chaplin

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

— Lucy Freeman