Age Quote by Henry Miller

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

— Roger Zelazny

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

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

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

— Bertrand Russell

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the…

— Winston Churchill

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

— Austin O'Malley

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until…

— Carroll Quigley

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that…

— Tom Stoppard

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery