1,222 Quotes About Civilization

In great civilizations, there lived great men and women. There also lived great animals and trees.

You have to become a lovenut for society, for the society to turn civilized.

The unraveling of civilization doesn’t require armies or revolutions. All that is required is for one too many people to be looking the wrong way at the wrong time.

Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.

The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions.

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

Civilization starts with us, so if we want to build a just and humane civilization, we must be just and humane ourselves. Look in the mirror - what do you see - do you see an animal that looks like a human - or do you see something more - look deeply - look beyond the shape and everything external - and you'll witness an entire civilization in the shape of a human.