1,222 Quotes About Civilization

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.