| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "When humor goes, there goes civilization." »Erma Bombeck |
| "civilization degrades the many to exalt the few." »Amos Bronson Alcott |
| "Simplicity is the peak of civilization." »Jessie Sampter |
| "civilization is a transient sickness." »Robinson Jeffers |
| "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." »Henry Allen |
| "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." »Will Rogers |
| "The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." »Robert G. Ingersoll |
| "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else." »Julian Jaynes |
| "The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization." »Jacob Getlar Smith |
| "Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization." »Charles Lindbergh |
| "People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization." »Agnes Repplier |
| "civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." »Oscar Wilde |
| "civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries." »Mark Twain |
| "The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." »Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| "Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization." »G. M. Trevelyan |
| "civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos." »Will Durant |
| "civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men." »Jane Addams |
| "The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place." »Havelock Ellis |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
