Airplane Quote by Hal Borland

“Our Western Civilization is in its death throes right now. We cannot stop the wheel from turning; ergo, we cannot save Western Civilization. All…

— Richard Scutari

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the…

— Morris West

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

— Edward Abbey

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

— Willis R. Whitney

Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.

— Rajiv Gandhi

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that…

— African Spir

“It’s sometimes argued that there’s no real progress; that a civilization that kills multitudes in mass warfare, that pollutes the land and oceans with…

— Robert M. Pirsig

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

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

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of…

— Herman Melville