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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
God established the family as the foundation of civilization.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a yeti.
The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.