Civilization Quote by Steve Allen

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

— Aldous Huxley

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

— Mason Cooley

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

— Theodore Roethke

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

— John Ruskin

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

— Jim Rohn

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

— Robert E. Howard

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

— Anita Roddick