Civilization Quote by Robert E. Howard

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

— Anonymous

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

— Mark Twain

There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe…

— Jimmy Sangster

The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great…

— Bahá'u'lláh

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients -…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

— Marie Curie

Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.

— Andy Rooney

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

— Jim Harrison

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be…

— Vernor Vinge

“One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer

— Melina Marchetta

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own…

— Margaret Mead