20 Best Civilization Quotes

The lessons of history would suggest that civilizations move in cycles. - Elon Musk

There are only a handful of really big milestones...the next important step is obvious: making life multiplanetary. - Elon Musk

This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. - Elon Musk

Civilization is sterilization.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. – Porfiry Petrovich

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? – Piggy

The rules are the only thing we've got! – Piggy

Which is better – to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? – Piggy

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. – Narrator

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. – Jack

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? – Piggy

The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. – Narrator

Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. – Narrator

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. – Narrator (on Ralph)

They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it, and he was big enough to be a link with the adult world of authority. – Narrator

We saw your smoke. And you don't know how many of you there are? – Naval Officer

Which is better – to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? – Piggy

I should have thought that a pack of British boys—you're all British, aren't you?—would have been able to put up a better show than that. – Naval Officer

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Without them, we are savages. Animals. – Winston