Beginning Quote by Larry Harvey

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is…

— Flora Lewis

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it…

— Jonathan Maberry

We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As…

— Jacque Fresco

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

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Roger Zelazny

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…

— Jacque Fresco

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

— Geoffrey West

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.

— Louis St. Laurent

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

— Jean Kerr

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in…

— Robyn Davidson

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

— Freya Stark