What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

What was invented with civilization was the ability of some to deny sensuality to others.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Is there a gun that shoots rain? Oh yeah, water guns. How technologically advanced we are!

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.