Civilization Quote by Douglas Adams

“Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.”

— Sherwood Anderson

There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.

— Ezra Pound

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

— John Lothrop Motley

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

Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has…

— Lucio Russo

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to be unlocked.…

— Paul McAuley

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

— Leo Errera

“And that through all the ups and downs, nothing really worthwhile is ever permanently lost, even though its creators may be long forgotten. When,…

— Paul Kriwaczek

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage…

— Peter Kreeft

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”

— Abhijit Naskar

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

— Anonymous