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 EinsteinCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations we can perform without thinking about them.
Alfred North WhiteheadCivilization begins with soap.
(unknown author)I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad LorenzPROGRESS. The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
H.L. MenckenThe civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Arthur KeithThe farmers are the founders of civilization.
Daniel WebsterThe greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton FriedmanThousands 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 MuirWe are creatures trapped in culture.
Terri GuillemetsWe may live without friends;
We may live without books;
But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonWe 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 RogersWhen tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster