1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving - or texting at all - but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us.

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense