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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

— Robert E. Howard

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

— Wendell Berry

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

— Anonymous

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

— Jim Harrison

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires…

— Lisa Joy