111 Quotes About Civilisation

Civilisation’s like the economy or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it’s real, it dies.

Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible".

Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us.

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening!

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.

But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.

Our civilisation being what it is, you've got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It's very disagreeable, I know. It's humiliating and disgusting. But there you are. You've got to do it, otherwise the whole fabric of our world will fall to bits and we'll starve. Do the job then, idiotically and mechanically; and spend your leisure hours in being a real complete man or woman.