Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

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

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.