Arrogance Quote by Mark Twain

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one…

— Sting

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

— Robert E. Howard

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

“Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important…

— Jacques Ellul

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

— Adam Ferrara

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion,…

— Henry Miller

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

— Anonymous

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim…

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Abbey

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by…

— Reinhold Niebuhr