Famous Civilization Quotes - Famous Quotes about Civilization
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. - William Jennings Bryan ***
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. - Emmylou Harris ***
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. - John Dewey ***
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. - Edmond de Goncourt ***
Civilisation --a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge ***
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. - Edward Abbey ***
Civilization is hideously fragile; there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. - C. P. Snow ***
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. - Rebecca West ***
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles Lindbergh ***
I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. - Steve McQueen ***
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. - Allen's Law of Civilization ***
It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it. - Ronald Knox ***
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? - Gilbert K. Chesterton ***
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. - Agnes Repplier ***
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky ***
This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans. (quoted from Parliament of Whores) - P. J. O'Rourke ***
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. - Eric Berne ***
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. - Margaret Mitchell ***
You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way. - Will Rogers ***
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