1,222 Quotes About Civilization

If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.