1,222 Quotes About Civilization

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Critical thinking is always difficult, but it's almost impossible when we are scared. There's no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

Extinction has long since become a part of our lives.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

We humans have survived and thrived for many centuries before the discovery of fire, which eventually led to the invention of cooking.

For food, we initially relied on nature; then ourselves; and now other people.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.