Civilization Quote by Herman Melville

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what…

— Primo Levi

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other…

— Clifford D. Simak

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

— Melvin B. Tolson

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

— Edmond de Goncourt

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

— Pierre Schaeffer

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

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 ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

— David Hare

Seavilization will be better than civilization, and we have nearly half the world's surface to discover it.

— Joe Quirk

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