1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.