Car Quote by Lisa Joy

Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more…

— Ai Weiwei

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind

— Tennessee Williams

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

— Anodea Judith

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

— George Bernard Shaw

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

— Steven Pinker

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of…

— Jack Donovan

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

— Steven Pinker

Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too…

— Charlie Chaplin

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila