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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way
George Bernard Shaw

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
Bertrand Russell

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos
Will Durant

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed
Nayef Al-Rodhan

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!
William M. Kucmierowski

This is a lovely world, he sighed. And yet it has suffered horror. Sometimes, so-called civilization seems bent on destroying those very things which it is sworn to protect.
William M. Kucmierowski

The only perfection which modern civilisation achieves is mechanical; machines are magnificent and immaculate but the life which serves them or is served by them isn't magnificent or shiny or more perfect or more comely.
Karel Čapek

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
Albert Camus