Quote by Richard M. Weaver

While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all…

— Frederick Lenz

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so…

— Anonymous

“Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success.”

— Richard M. Weaver

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

— Tom Robbins

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

— George Orwell

“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one…

— W.G. Sebald

“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.”

— Philip Yancey

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set…

— Thomas Mann

In our present age, while materialistic pursuits are important, the gentler aspects of life are being overlooked.

— Rhea Pillai

“I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are…

— Mo Yan