Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Votes: 5
Arnold J. ToynbeeCivilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Votes: 5
Sigmund FreudCivilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Votes: 4
Jean-Jacques RousseauAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeWe will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. Votes: 4
Will RogersPresent-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival. Votes: 3
John R. RiceCivilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. Votes: 3
Robert Andrews MillikanGodlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief. Votes: 3
Cynthia OzickCivilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Votes: 3
Malcolm MuggeridgeCivilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages. Votes: 3
H. P. BlavatskyCivilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused. Votes: 3
Steve AllenZoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory. Votes: 3
Yann MartelCivilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems. Votes: 3
Stewart BrandEvery advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent Votes: 3
Bertrand RussellCivilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself. Votes: 3
Helen CamCivilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. Votes: 3
Edward AbbeyCivilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. Votes: 3
Henepola GunaratanaIt's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. Votes: 3
Jerry SpringerCivilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit. Votes: 3
Gregory David RobertsCivilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago. Votes: 3
Gertrude AthertonCivilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. Votes: 3
Octavia ButlerFortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization. Votes: 3
Oswald SpenglerCivilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. Votes: 3
Victor HugoCivilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. Votes: 3
George Bernard ShawThe end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonCivilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiCivilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. Votes: 3
Jose Ortega y GassetCivilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us. Votes: 3
Andy RooneyCivilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law. Votes: 3
Roscoe PoundThe test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members Votes: 3
Pearl S. BuckCivilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. Votes: 3
Werner HerzogIf civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. Votes: 3
Camille PagliaCivilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. Votes: 3
Nancy PelosiCivilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body. Votes: 3
Napoleon BonaparteCivilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. Votes: 3
Arthur C. ClarkeCivilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. Votes: 3
Serj TankianCivilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. Votes: 3
Jose Ortega y GassetThere is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level. Votes: 3
Mark TwainCivilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. Votes: 3
Julian JaynesCivilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. Votes: 3
Laura Anne GilmanCivilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. Votes: 2
Dean KoontzOne of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. Votes: 1
Rutherford B. HayesThe true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! Votes: 1
Mark TwainAll civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. Votes: 1
Havelock EllisDisinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. Votes: 0
G. M. TrevelyanThe inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauBooks are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print. Votes: 0
Barbara TuchmanPlease, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. Votes: 0
Alexander PushkinThe great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Votes: 0
Milton FriedmanModern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. Votes: 0
Thomas YellowtailI remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization. Votes: 0
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. Votes: 0
Janusz Korwin-MikkeSunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranOur civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyWhen thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction. Votes: 0
Jacob NeedlemanWar is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization Votes: 0
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-BakerThe charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization. Votes: 0
Ethel SmythOur assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked. Votes: 0
Timothy LearyThe luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create. Votes: 0
Apsley Cherry-GarrardIs a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? Votes: 0
Gerard K. O'NeillEvery civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values. Votes: 0
Golda MeirOur civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyHad Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenHackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization. Votes: 0
Mitch KaporPatriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0
Bill KristolPatriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. Votes: 0
William KristolThe instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery. Votes: 0
Carroll QuigleyChristianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name! Votes: 0
Ngugi wa Thiong'oAmerica's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing. Votes: 0
Walter A. McDougallWhatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerReject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukWe argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization. Votes: 0
Charles SiebertThe universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawHe who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work. Votes: 0
Kenneth W. HarlBreak the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. Votes: 0
Robert E. HowardNo country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ... Votes: 0
Gertrude AthertonNew York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. Votes: 0
David LettermanWhatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudNo healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. Votes: 0
William Ralph IngeThe disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization. Votes: 0
Franz BoasMachinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiLearning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them. Votes: 0
Dorothy L. SayersNo civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. Votes: 0
Niall FergusonThe sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization. Votes: 0
Walter RussellNo civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. Votes: 0
Otto von BismarckThe truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiA civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiTraditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization. Votes: 0
Ken BlackwellPractical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillExtremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Votes: 0
Antoine RivarolToday's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Votes: 0
Naguib MahfouzSurely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterAll that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product. Votes: 0
Samuel SmilesThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyThe Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd WrightThere is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. Votes: 0
Walter BenjaminCoal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Votes: 0
James HansenFrom the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Votes: 0
Friedrich EngelsCompetition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization Votes: 0
Peter KropotkinIf men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesI have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Votes: 0
Alan RudolphModern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. Votes: 0
Alfred W. CrosbyFrom the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. Votes: 0
Derrick JensenWhat can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? Votes: 0
Jean-Baptiste SayImagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization. Votes: 0
Glenn ReynoldsThe freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiSocial science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Cady StantonThe taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensThe acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization, Votes: 0
Pat RobertsonI think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenThere is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThe worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieNot much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeWhen people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals Votes: 0
John GreenThe philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. Votes: 0
William BarrettOf what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered? Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiThe city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. Votes: 0
Josiah StrongWhen work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall. Votes: 0
John D. RockefellerThe city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center, Votes: 0
Josiah StrongThe real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be. Votes: 0
Louis de BernieresA civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardIt would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime. Votes: 0
Hayao MiyazakiThe test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. Votes: 0
James CookWhat does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world? Votes: 0
Serj TankianEvery murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind. Votes: 0
Rae FoleyBut that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyTerrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Votes: 0
Walter IsaacsonI have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. Votes: 0
Imre KerteszFor you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. Votes: 0
Will DurantSweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental. Votes: 0
Annabel TollmanNo civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. Votes: 0
Joel SalatinMy play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. Votes: 0
Richard ForemanAre some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ? Votes: 0
Ellen LuptonTo me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. Votes: 0
Robert ShapiroPeople who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierTo us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellThe world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillIt has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanThe most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. Votes: 0
Winston S. ChurchillA higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. Votes: 0
Ludwig von MisesWestern civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting. Votes: 0
Tom RobbinsIn essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. Votes: 0
John FowlesA great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Votes: 0
Ariel DurantIn going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeDeath has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific. Votes: 0
Jose RizalPoetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. Votes: 0
Orson F. WhitneyWilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Votes: 0
Aldo LeopoldThe last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. Votes: 0
William Wells BrownIf the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization. Votes: 0
Bill NyeEmancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. Votes: 0
Mahatma Gandhiyou can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way Votes: 0
Will RogersFor nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him Votes: 0
Jostein GaarderYou can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Votes: 0
Will RogersThe degree of a nation's civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyTo defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksThe imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThere's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. Votes: 0
Roger ZelaznyThe first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudIf civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Votes: 0
Jacques BarzunWhen civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. Votes: 0
Denis HayesTo speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. Votes: 0
Frantz FanonThe danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. Votes: 0
Jim HarrisonThis civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIf civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. Votes: 0
Ronald WrightThe wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellThe history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. Votes: 0
Fulton J. SheenThe law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path. Votes: 0
Ariana FranklinAs long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. Votes: 0
John DeweyMarriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. Votes: 0
Hank HanegraaffIt is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization. Votes: 0
M.L. StedmanIf the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. Votes: 0
Stanley Marion GarnThe moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. Votes: 0
Anatol RapoportIf you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. Votes: 0
David GemmellEverything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. Votes: 0
Jose ArguellesEach civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. Votes: 0
Rene DubosThe Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. Votes: 0
W.A.R. GibbSome people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. Votes: 0
John MalkovichFrom first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. Votes: 0
Ellsworth HuntingtonWhat I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. Votes: 0
Mark PesceIf any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. Votes: 0
Ayn RandThere is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. Votes: 0
Walter BenjaminThe test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. Votes: 0
Jerome FrankThe measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. Votes: 0
Jack McDevittOur ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiDeception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power Votes: 0
Robert GreeneAs long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization. Votes: 0
Jacque FrescoLiberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. Votes: 0
Will DurantMore than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. Votes: 0
David SuzukiWhen a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellYou can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. Votes: 0
David GerroldA civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIf we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. Votes: 0
Karl PopperA man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
Adlai Stevenson IA new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
Alvin TofflerThey do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Camille PagliaThe more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Havelock EllisThe crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
Jules Amedee Barbey d'AurevillyWe live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
R. C. SproulWhatâs looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
Lierre KeithThe time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.
Mikhail GorbachevThe seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Katherina LangerWar is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Will DurantThe real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
Anthony GregoryStyle is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
David BowieTo provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
Jeremy SeabrookArt is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
John French SloanThe market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.
Ludwig von MisesIn the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.
Shulamith FirestoneFrom barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will DurantPreach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
William Dean HowellsThe biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
Charles E. McKenzieAny government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.
George W. BushNo civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.
Lester R. BrownOur way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
Al GoreGay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.
Judy GrahnThe true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
Mark TwainWe can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.
Stuart J. RussellUnless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.
William H. CalvinReally advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. Votes: 3 Bill Gates
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. Votes: 1 Arthur Keith
nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class. Votes: 3 Molly Ivins
I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. Votes: 1 Imre Kertesz
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. Votes: 4 Marianne Williamson
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life. Votes: 3 Aly Khan
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Votes: 3 Kathryn Bigelow