Civilization Quote by Mark Twain

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

— Mark Twain

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

— Gregory David Roberts

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

— Leo Errera

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Anonymous

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work…

— Frank Herbert

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

— Henry David Thoreau