Alternatives Quote by David Graeber

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

— Leo Errera

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

— Anonymous

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

— Dirk Benedict

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

— Alexander Meiklejohn

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

— Serj Tankian

Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of…

— Mark Twain

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other…

— Clifford D. Simak

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus