1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.