Accepting Quote by George Orwell

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark

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

— Andy Rooney

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

— Melvin B. Tolson

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

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

— Octavio Paz

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures…

— Johan Huizinga

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

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

— Jane Addams