Civilization Quotes
+3Civilization begins with soap.
- Maud van Buren
+1Speech is civilization itself.
- Thomas Mann
+1Civilization is what makes you sick.
- Paul Gauguin
+1When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck
+1Civilization is the making of civil persons.
- John Ruskin
+1Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Ariel
+1Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
- Amos Bronson
+1Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.
- Thor Heyerdahl
+1Where there are humans you’ll find flies and Buddhas.
- Issa
+1Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
- Victor Hugo
+1Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
- B.F.Skinner
+1A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
- Martin H. Fischer
+1We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
- Bryan White
+1We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
+1Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
+1Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
- Bennett Cerf
+1Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
- Ogden Nash
+1Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
- Mason Cooley
+1People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
- Edmond
+1Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
+1Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
- Jane Addams
+1What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas Gandhi
+1Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- Arnold Toynbee
+1The progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
- Edgar Saltus
+1We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
+1What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Henry Havelock
+1I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
- Henry Allen
+1The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud
+1Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Barbara Tuchman
+1If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
- Stanley Garn
+1You can’t say that civilization don’t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
+1Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
- Julian Jaynes
+1The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
- Havelock Ellis
+1When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
- Daniel Webster
+1The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
- Robert Ingersoll
+1The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- John Muir
+1If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
+1Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
- C.P. Snow
