1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Civilization has always been a bust.

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.

...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.