Top Civilization Quotes
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
Chuck D.
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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun 
88% of people like this quote
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner
86% of people like this quote
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
83% of people like this quote
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
83% of people like this quote
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
79% of people like this quote
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.
Henry James
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
78% of people like this quote
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum
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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby
77% of people like this quote
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