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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. Walter Isaacson Civilization 184
The slum is the measure of civilization. Jacob Riis Civilization 160
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Ariel Durant Civilization 159
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. Arnold J. Toynbee Civilization 140
The more I see of what you call civilization the more highly I think of what you call savagery Robert E. Howard Civilization 139
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. Bill Bryson Civilization 138
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. Hervey Allen Civilization 132
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus Civilization 128
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization. Friedrich Engels Civilization 121
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. Mark Twain Civilization 120
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud Civilization 115
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. Anatole France Civilization 113
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. Sigmund Freud Civilization 110
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. Herbert Spencer Civilization 106
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Civilization 104
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. Jacques Yves Cousteau Civilization 103
No one species shall make the life of the world its own. Thats one expression of the law. Heres another The world was not made for any one species. Daniel Quinn Civilization 97
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Civilization 96
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. Michel Foucault Civilization 96
Civilization is what makes you sick. Paul Gauguin Civilization 94
No civilization including Platos has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. Robert McKee Civilization 91
Now we have a clearer idea what this story is all about The world was made for man and man was made to rule it. Daniel Quinn Civilization 90
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior. Robert Bringhurst Civilization 90
Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization. Richard H. Davis Civilization 89
Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Oscar Wilde Civilization 88
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung Civilization 87
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. Roger Ebert Civilization 87
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. Henry James Civilization 87
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. Ezra Pound Civilization 85
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Jean Jacques Rousseau Civilization 84
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? Mary Baker Eddy Civilization 84
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. George Orwell Civilization 83
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized. Epicurus Civilization 82
Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. Ray Bradbury Civilization 78
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. Ida B. Wells Civilization 77
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Robert Frost Civilization 76
He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization. G Willow Wilson Civilization 76
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. Antoine De SaintExupery Civilization 76
The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for cariety of sensations and absolutely nothing more. Fyodor Dostoevsky Civilization 75
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. Simone Weil Civilization 75
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind. Charles L. Lucas Civilization 75
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. Flora Lewis Civilization 74
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. Arthur Keith Civilization 74
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. Ludwig von Mises Civilization 74
I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind. Kurt Vonnegut Civilization 73
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries sooner or later to every sandy cape and lighthouse of the New World which the censustaker visits and summons the savage there to surrender. Henry David Thoreau Civilization 72
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. Mahatma Gandhi Civilization 71
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph Robert E. Howard Civilization 70
I am beginning to understand, said the little prince. There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... Antoine de Saint-Exupery Civilization 70
Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance. Toba Beta Civilization 69

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