“Civilization depends on morality.”
“Civilization is the making of civil persons.”
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
“The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”
“The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.”
“The test of civilization is its estimate of women.”
“Every new generation...is a fresh invasion of savages.”
“Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.”
“The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.”
“Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.”
“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
“To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.”
“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
“Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.”
“Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.”
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.”
“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”
“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”
“Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
“The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.”
“A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.”
“Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?”
“I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.”
“Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.”
“One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”