Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
~Aldous Huxley
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
~Erma Bombeck
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
~Thomas Carlyle
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
~George Carlin
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~John Muir
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
~Henry David Thoreau
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.
~Bertrand Russell
You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
~Will Rogers
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
~C.P. Snow
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
~Henry Louis Mencken
Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
~Ogden Nash
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
~Albert Einstein
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
~Bryan White
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
~George Bernard Shaw
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
~Syrus
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~Albert Einstein
Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.
~Lord Raglan
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
~Oscar Wilde
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
~Sigmund Freud
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