This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about civilization.
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All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.Albert Einstein
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization begins with soap.(unknown author)
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.Konrad Lorenz
PROGRESS. The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.H.L. Mencken
The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.Arthur Keith
The farmers are the founders of civilization.Daniel Webster
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.Milton Friedman
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.John Muir
We are creatures trapped in culture.Terri Guillemets
We may live without friends;Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.Will Rogers
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.Daniel Webster
