Civilization Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud, 05/06/1856 - 11/23/1939
Austrian neurologist & the founder of psychoanalysis

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Bill Bryson

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

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