Quotes about Civilization

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

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

Maybe every time an intelligent species grew advanced enough to invent a global computer network, they would then develop some form of social media, which would immediately fill these beings with such an intense hatred for one another that they ended up wiping themselves out within four or five decades.

Basically, kid, what this all means is that life is a lot tougher than it used to be, in the Good Old Days, back before you were born. Things used to be awesome, but now they're kinda terrifying. To be honest, the future doesn't look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in 'decline.' Some people even say it's 'collapsing.

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.