Call Civilization Quotes
- What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France
- There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… — Howard Zinn
- Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the… — Max Lerner
- It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
- Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver
- The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery! — Robert E. Howard
- The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our… — Robert Ardrey