Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Woody Hayes

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli

Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin

Civilization is what makes you sick.
Paul Gauguin

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant

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

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
Chuck D.