1,222 Quotes About Civilization

But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent.

Щом постройката на една цивилизация е проядена, тълпите предизвикват срутването ѝ.

Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest.

Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like.

What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?

But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.