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| All bildning står på ofri grund till slutet, blott barbariet var en gång fosterländskt. | Esaias Tegnér (1782-1846) |
| Barbari och civilisation kulturens förrätt och dessert. | Hans Kasper |
| Barbari är frånvaron av normer och instanser för överklagande. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| Civilisation är den oupphörliga produktionen av onödiga nödvändigheter. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Civilisation är ett sätt att förhålla sig till livet, en övertygelse om att alla människor är värda samma respekt. | Jane Addams (1860-1935) |
| Civilisation är ett sätt att leva, en inställning att alla människor är lika värda. | Jane Addams (1860-1935) |
| Civilisation är vad som får dig att må dåligt. | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) |
| Civilisationen är en gränslös multiplikation av onödvändiga nödvändigheter. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Den första människan som slängde iväg en förolämpning istället för en sten var grundaren av civilisationen. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Det anskrämligas kultur beter barbari. | Hans Lohberger |
| Det är omöjligt att upprätthålla cilivisation med 12-åringar som får bebisar, 15-åringar som mördar varandra, 17-åringar som dör i AIDS och 18-åringar som får diplom som de inte kan läsa. | Newt Gingrich (1943-) |
| Det är så dumt av modern cilivisation att sluta tro på djävulen när han är den enda förklaringen till den. | Ronald Knox (1888-1957) |
| Detta blir inte ett civiliserat land förrän vi spenderar mer pengar på böcker än på tuggummi. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Ingen kultur kan leva för evigt, om den som inte är tillgänglig för alla. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Jag tror jag har funnit den felande länken mellan djuret och den civiliserade människan. Det är vi. | Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) |
| Man kan inte påstå att civilisationen inte gör framsteg. I varje krig dödar man på ett helt nytt sätt. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| New York... när civilisationen rasar samman, minns då att vi var långt före er. | David Letterman (1947-) |
| Om den moderna civilisationen har någon betydelse blev den uppenbarad under kampen mot fascismen. | Ruth McKenney (1911-) |
| Vad är barbariet annat än det att man inte vill erkänna det förträffliga. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Civilisation er et tyndt laklag, man kan fjerne med spiritus. | Børge Outze |
| Husk at murene omkring byerne kun er lavet af forfald fra huse på landet. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| Civilisation fordærver det naturlige. Primitivitet, der hos Naturfolk er et Udtryk for Ægthed og Oprindelighed, bliver under civiliserede Forhold til Simpelhed og Vulgaritet. | Ove Fahnøe |
| De tre store elementer af moderne civilisation: krudtet, bogtrykkunsten og den protestantiske religion | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Civilisation --a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. | Ariel Durant (1898-1981) |
| Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. | Brian W. Aldiss (1925-) |
| When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder | David Brower (1912-) |
| Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest | Émile Zola (1840-1902) |
| America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization | George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. | Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) |
| The slum is the measure of civilization | Jacob Riis (1849-1914) |
| We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. | John Perry Barlow |
| Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| Property is the pivot of civilization | Leon Samson |
| When a civilization takes up the study of itself, it is always high noon. | Michael Mooney |
| A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death | Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) |
| Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason | Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) |
| People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization | Agnes Repplier (1858-1950) |
| Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. | Carrie P. Snow |
| But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. | Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) |
| Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization | Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) |
| We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve | George William Curtis (1824-1892) |
| If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power | Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) |
| 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 Cousteau (1910-1997) |
| America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. | John O'Hara |
| I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war | Kenneth Clark |
| 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 (1930-) |
| Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) |
| As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket | George Carlin (1937-) |
| I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it. | H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937) |
| "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." | H. P Lovecraft (1890-1937) |
| Art is the signature of civilizations. | Beverly Sills (1929-) |
| When humor goes, there goes civilization. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. | George Clemenceau (1841-1929) |
| All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| There can be no high civility without a deep morality | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice | Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) |
| To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization | Chinese Proverbs |
| Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| 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 (1782-1852) |
| We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve | George William Curtis (1824-1892) |
| The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men | Jane Addams (1860-1935) |
| The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. | John Muir (1838-1914) |
| If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
| The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government | Milton Friedman (1912-) |
| Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized. | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) |
| Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark | Theodore Parker |
| No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| The social molds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to real star patterns | Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) |
| Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. | Timothy Leary (1920-1996) |
| Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products | W. R. Inge |
| The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions - | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: "The situation is normal." | Will Durant (1885-1981) |
| You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers | William James (1842-1910) |