Civilization is the stage of human social development and organization which is considered most advanced

1. Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
Toba Beta

2. I do not think that the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.
Anonymous

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

4. Civilization Is The Distance Man Has Placed Between Himself
Anonymous

5. Civilization Is An Enormous Improvement On The Lack Thereof.
Anonymous

6. Civilization is the patient, eager, stubborn desire that there should be on earth to the most possible extent less injustice, less pain, less unhappiness. Civilization is to love one another. Do not say what i can do is so little. All love which is sown will bloom, sooner or later.
R. Follereau

7. Civilization has never looked like this before. This is ludicrousness and this cannot last.
Timothy

8. Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

9. Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness
Anonymous

10. Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

11. Reject the basic assumptions of civilization especially the importance of material possessions.
Tyler Durden

12. You can't say civilization isn't advancing, in every war, they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

13. The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant

14. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild
Anonymous

15. What do you think about western civilization? I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi

16. The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci

17. Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner

18. The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

19. The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization
Anonymous

20. Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant

21. The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization.
Stephen Cave

22. Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

23. If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
David Gemmell

24. Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog

25. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves
Mark Twain

26. Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Arthur Erickson

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

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

29. Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller

30. The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Woodrow Wilson

31. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
FRANK HERBERT

32. Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss

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33. Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.
Daniel Suarez

34. I Believe Empathy Is The Most Essential Quality Of Civilization.
Roger Ebert

35. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh

36. The great lie is that it is civilization. It’s not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That’s the great lie, is that it represents civilization.
John Trudell

37. It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
Henry S. Haskins

38. The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

39. We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers

40. It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides
Anonymous

41. The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot

43. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant

44. Civilization: A lifestyle made up of an almost entirely artificial environment; isolated from the natural world. A prison cell in which the bars are rarely seen.
Anonymous

45. I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
L. Ron Hubbard

46. THE FACT is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
Oscar Wilde

47. From its beginning, Egypt was a densely settled agricultural community. Its soil was rich, and because farming necessarily ceased during the months of the annual inundation, its people were not forced to toil endlessly in order to survive. The peasant farmers could support a wealthy aristocracy without suffering extreme privation, and an important segment of the population was able to devote a substantial amount of time to nonagricultural pursuits. In shorts, for most of its long history, Egyptian civilization was wealthy and comfortable
Norman F. Cantor

48. Savagery is necessary every four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization.
Jules de Goncourt

49. An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.
Anonymous

50. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

51. The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

52. Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in chains.
Ferdinand August Bebel

53. Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes

54. The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud

55. The highest achievement of perfect civilization is to work with valor but at the same time depend completely on the Lord
Anonymous

56. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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57. Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel

58. Organizing your leisure effectively is the highest level of civilization.
Bertrand Russell

59. The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Stephen Gardiner

60. The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

61. Civilization Is An Elaborate Conspiracy To Make Me Wear Pants
Anonymous

62. Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Arthur Erickson

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

64. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand