Break Quote by Elizabeth Hurley

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one…

— Sting

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

— Serj Tankian

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the…

— Helen McCloy

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

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

— Andy Rooney

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important…

— Jacques Ellul

To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.

— Bertrand Russell

The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon…

— John Trudell

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of…

— Derrick Jensen