Civilization Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of…

— Charles Baudelaire

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

— Austin O'Malley

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor…

— Cyril Connolly

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

— Laura Anne Gilman

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know…

— Elizabeth Hurley

Fermentation equals civilization.

— John Ciardi

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

— Tryon Edwards

“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical…

— Carl Sagan

“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization”

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil…

— David Goodstein

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

— John Ciardi

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

— Robert Green Ingersoll