Civilization Quote by Lin Yutang

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

— Roger Zelazny

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

— James Lovelock

There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

— Edward Abbey

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

— Christian Lous Lange

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler…

— Charlton Laird

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its…

— George Bernard Shaw

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

— Anonymous

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

— Tryon Edwards

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a…

— Carroll Quigley

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

— Woody Hayes

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller