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"If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man." »Andre Malraux
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"civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. civilization is the process of setting man free from men." »Ayn Rand
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"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." »Albert Einstein
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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others." »William Jennings Bryan
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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." »Jean Baudrillard
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"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." »L. Frank Baum
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"When humor goes, there goes civilization." »Erma Bombeck
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"What a time! What a civilization!" »Cicero
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"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." »Will Rogers
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"Simplicity is the peak of civilization." »Jessie Sampter
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"The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next." »Cyril Connolly
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"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." »Henry Allen
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"The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization." »Jacob Getlar Smith
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"civilization degrades the many to exalt the few." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta." »Brian Aldiss
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"civilization is a transient sickness." »Robinson Jeffers
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"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization." »William James Durant
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"civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else." »Julian Jaynes
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"civilization is the process of setting man free from men." »Ayn Rand
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"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed." »Henry Kissinger
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"(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses." »Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
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"civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." »Mark Twain
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"civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries." »Mark Twain
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." »Arnold Toynbee
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