Building Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers

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

— Anonymous

Civilization is what makes you sick.

— Paul Gauguin

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

— William Ralph Inge

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war…

— Rutger Bregman

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Andy Rooney

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.”

— Edward Abbey