When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You’ve got to be there. You’ve got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes. – Gary Shteyngart
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. – George W. Bush
Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization! – Elie Ducommun
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear. – Paul Harris
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse. – Maurice Strong
What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. – Margaret Mitchell
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. – John Buchan
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization… It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. – Josiah Strong
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. – Julian Assange
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. – John Buchan
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented. – Jack Schwartz
Right now, there’s the illusion of order and civilization, but there’s a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. – Kathryn Bigelow
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture. – John Eccles
