1,222 Quotes About Civilization

The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.