Cities Quote by Tom Standage

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

“Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

“There are few words which are used more loosely than the word “Civilization.” What does it mean? It means a society based upon the…

— Winston Churchill

“All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: "I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d…

— Terry Pratchett

“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

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

— Fukuzawa Yukichi

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

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.”

— Os Guinness

“Civilization is complex. It involves the existence of human communities characterized by political and social organization; dominating and utilizing natural forces; adapting themselves to…

— Frank L. DeSilva

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery