You can’t say civilization don’t advance … in every war they kill you in a new way. ~ Will Rogers Quotes
Without winners, there wouldn’t even be any civilization. ~ Woody Hayes
What man calls civilization always results in deserts. ~ Don Marquis
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ~ Eric Berne
The first request of civilization … is that of justice. ~ Sigmund Freud
Our civilization depends largely on paper. ~ Pliny The Elder
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ~ H.L. Mencken
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball. ~ Gerald Early
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. ~ Frank Herbert
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~ Robert E. Howard
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. ~ Arnold Toynbee
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward. ~ Edward Abbey
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. ~ Emile Zola
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. ~ Vance Havner
Civilization sails prettily like a child’s rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. ~ Austin O’Malley
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. ~ Herbert
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. ~ Wallace Stevens
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. ~ Timothy Leary
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep. ~ Austin O’Malley
Civilization is the way one’s own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. ~ Octavia E. Butler
Civilization is the making of civil persons. ~ John Ruskin
Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades. ~ Thomas B. Aldrich
Civilization is sterilization. ~ Aldous Hu
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. ~ Charles L. Lucas
Civilization is fragile and highly ambiguous. To hope in ourselves would be a big gamble. ~ Christiaan Mostert
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. ~ Sigmund Freud
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence — whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. ~ Robert E. Howard
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ~ Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Civilization helps the disabled and disables those who can help themselves. ~ Abraham Miller
Civilization depends on morality. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. ~ Robert E. Howard
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ~ Havelock Ellis
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ~ Ezra Pound
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ~ Antoine De Saint-
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries. Elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. ~ Emil Cioran
