We’re a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. (“Dilbert”)
Civilization Quotes
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Is man’s civilization only a wrapper, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Civilized people – Muslims, Christians and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
