Civilization Quote by William Ralph Inge

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

— George Bernard Shaw

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers

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

— Anonymous

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is what makes you sick.

— Paul Gauguin

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a…

— Henry Miller

“Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization killer”

— A.M.M Alusi

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

— Rene Dubos

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a…

— G. Stanley Hall

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

Death is better than disease.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow