Civilization Quote by Rachel Carson

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

— Nicolas Gomez Davila

A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic…

— Matthew Fox

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also…

— Walter Cronkite

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

— Daisaku Ikeda

War is not civilized.

— Talib Kweli

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized

— Rod Serling

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream…

— Lin Yutang

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

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

— John Stuart Mill

As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…

— Jacque Fresco

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

— Thomas Hobbes

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality.…

— George Orwell