When civilization ends, it ends fast.
Technology is not the measure of a great civilization.
Eating far too much food for too much money is the essence of civilization.
Civilization starts when we stop running. When we live together. When we stop sending people away from the world and from each other.
When a civilization acts in opposition to its instincts, it may be under the influence of something, or someone, new.
The thing about civilization is, it keeps you civil. Get rid of one, you can’t count on the other.
I thought we’d be killing each other by now, like civilized human beings.[to Augustin]
Civilisation has always depended on a measure of elective ignorance.
We’re going out there, we’re taking back what’s ours. Civilization. We will rise again. Only this time we won’t be eating each other.
It seems the farther we get from civilization, the more of its rules we leave behind. Its traditions. Its inhibitions. The farther west we travel, the more those rules and customs become a burden.
All civilizations are born of violence.
