Civilization Quotes
23 quotations about Civilization
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
Civilization depends on morality.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.
Authors on Civilization
Thomas B. Aldrich
Hervey Allen
Eric Berne
Thomas Carlyle
George William Curtis
Benjamin Disraeli
Havelock Ellis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Hare
Woody Hayes
Elbert Hubbard
Charles L. Lucas
Malcolm Muggeridge
George Orwell
John Ruskin
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Adlai E. Stevenson
Arnold Toynbee
Mark Twain
C. J. Weber