Blood Quote by John Trudell

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

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the…

— Helen McCloy

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that…

— David Horowitz

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

— L. Neil Smith

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know…

— Elizabeth Hurley

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye…

— Jack McDevitt

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

— Mark Twain

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less…

— Stjepan Mestrovic

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead