Civilization Quotes

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?

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.