Civilization Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

— Dirk Benedict

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

— Wendell Berry

Civilization is coming to an end, you understand.

— Dorothy Parker

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

— William Harvey

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

— Will Rogers

Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.

— Varg Vikernes

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

— Anonymous