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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
- Ruskin, John

A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
- Unknown, Source

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
- Freud, Sigmund

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
- Bryan, William Jennings

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
- Pound, Ezra

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- Connolly, Cyril

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
- Marx, Karl

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
- Agar, Herbert

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
- Ellis, Havelock

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
- Clark, Kenneth, Lord

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- Durant, William J.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
- Cioran, E. M.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
- Durant, William J.

Civility costs nothing.
- Proverb

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
- Horney, Karen

Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Sills, Beverly

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
- Coolidge, Calvin

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
- Maistre, Joseph De

Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
- Proverb, Chinese

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
- Sampter, Jessie

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Whitehead, Alfred North

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
- Aldrich, Thomas B.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Berne, Eric

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
- Curtis, George William

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
- Disraeli, Benjamin

Civilization depends on morality.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
- Hare, David

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
- Hayes, Woody

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
- Hubbard, Elbert

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
- Lucas, Charles L.

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
- Muggeridge, Malcolm

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- Orwell, George

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
- Toynbee, Arnold

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Twain, Mark

The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.
- Weber, C. J.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- Trevelyan, G. M.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- Johnson, Samuel

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- Meredith, George

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
- Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
- Herheri, George

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
- Tagore, Rabindranath

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
- Mann, Thomas

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
- Unknown, Source

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Toynbee, Arnold

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
- Wycherley, William

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
- Carlyle, Thomas

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- Toynbee, Arnold

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- Repplier, Agnes

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
- Dryden, John

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
- Webster, Daniel

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Wilde, Oscar

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
- Lippmann, Walter

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
- Garn, Stanley

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
- Wilde, Oscar

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
- Whitehead, Alfred North

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
- Cioran, E. M.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
- Paglia, Camille

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
- Weil, Simone

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- Ellis, Havelock

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
- Burke, Edmund

You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
- Rogers, Will

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
- Stevens, Wallace

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
- Buchan, John

We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
- Meredith, Owen

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
- Whitney, W. R.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
- Roosevelt, Theodore