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| A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices. | | Ayn Rand | |
| A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution | | Havelock Ellis | |
| All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. | | Albert Einstein | |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of Civilization. | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos | | Will Durant | |
| Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. | | 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 | |
| Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities | | Mark Twain | |
| Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity | | Will Durant | |
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| Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. | | Ayn Rand | |
| Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. | | Timothy Leary | |
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| Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest | | Emile Zola | |
| Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will | | Winston Churchill | |
| Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. | | Richard Bach | |
