1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they kill you a new way.