Civilization Quote by Octavio Paz

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

— Anonymous

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.”…

— Liu Cixin

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

— P. J. O'Rourke

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives…

— Francis Galton

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

— Matt Chandler

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

— Gustave Flaubert

Our civilizations have evolved. The solutions we can find for the things that keep us somewhat primitive and base and ugly in our desires…

— Lisa Joy