...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

Destruction is easily reversed, Brain drainage howbeit is a civilization kille

The life of the arts... is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.