Civilization Quote by Camille Paglia

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

— Anonymous

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes…

— Scott Westerfeld

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

— Carl von Clausewitz

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

— Robert E. Howard

They condemn what they do not understand.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it

— Terry Goodkind

In their overestimation of the role of civilization, the humanists misunderstand the primary forces of the world of primitive human drives with their untamable…

— Stefan Zweig

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

— Beatrice Webb

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

— Havelock Ellis

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

— Andy Rooney