Civilization Quote by Jacques Ellul

“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

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

— Serj Tankian

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

— Dorothy Parker

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can…

— Sigurd F. Olson

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

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis,…

— Muhammad Yunus

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

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