Civilization quotes

“- Dickie Greenleaf: How could it take an hour to find an ambulance?
- Marge Sherwood: She was already dead, darling.
- Dickie Greenleaf: I don't know why people say this country is civilised. It isn't. It's fucking primitive!”
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf
Gwyneth Paltrow - Marge Sherwood

“Our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.”
Alan Rudolph

“- James Bond: Why the orchids?
- Hugo Drax: The curse of a civilization. It was neither war nor pestilence that wiped out the race who built the great city lying around us. It was their reverence for this lovely flower. Because long-term exposure to its pollen caused sterility.”
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax

“- Jason Evans: What do you think's going to happen to us?
- Jack Hall: What do you mean?
- Jason Evans: I mean us? Civilization? Everyone?
- Jack Hall: Mankind survived the last ice age. We're certainly capable of surviving this one. All depends on whether or not we're able to learn from our mistakes.”
Dash Mihok - Jason Evans
Dennis Quaid - Jack Hall

“We know they're extremely advanced technologically, which suggests - very rightfully so - that they're peaceful. An advanced civilization, by definition, is not barbaric.”

Pierce Brosnan - Professor Donald Kessler

“- Amanda Dunfrey: People are basically good; decent. My God, David, we're a civilized society.
- David Drayton: Sure, as long as the machines are working and you can dial 911. But you take those things away, you throw people in the dark, you scare the shit out of them, no more rules.”
Laurie Holden - Amanda Dunfrey
Jeffrey DeMunn - Dan Miller

“- Night Slasher: The court is civilized, isn't it pig?
- Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti: But I'm not. This is where the law stops and I start, sucker!”
Brian Thompson - Night Slasher
Sylvester Stallone - Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti

“Let's be nice; let's be civil. And let's drop those guns before I pull this trigger and change the way you feel about me.”

Keith David - Louis Fedders

“- Barb: What, you don't like gum?
- Roland Sharp: No. Chewing gum is the most significant factor in the decline of Western civilization.”
Kelli Garner - Barb
Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp

“To be affronted by solitude without decadence, or a single material thing to prostitute, it elevates you to a spiritual plane, where I felt the presence of God. Now, there's the God they taught me about at school, and there is the God that's hidden by what surrounds us in this civilization. That's the God that I met on the mountain.”
John Malkovich - Narrator

“Civilization is at the crossroads in every department.”
Paul Newman - Gov. Earl K. Long

“I'm going to show you the greatest thing your eyes have ever beheld. He was a king and a god in the world he knew, but now he comes to civilization merely a captive - a show to gratify your curiosity.”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham

“Arrakis. Dune. Wasteland of the Empire, and the most valuable planet in the Universe. Because it is here and only here, where spice is found. Without the spice, there is no commerce in the empire, no civilization. Arrakis. Dune. Home of the Spice, most valuable treasure in the universe. And he who controls it, controls our destiny.”
Julie Cox - Princess Irulan Corrino

“To run a successful civilization, you have got to have your lines of demarcation: between right 'n' wrong, between this'n 'n' that'n.”
Leo Burmester - Cody

“Because of the end of civilization, the Clamp Cable Network now leaves the air. We hope you've enjoyed our programming, but more importantly, we hope you've enjoyed... life.”
Neil Ross - Announcer

“Civilization is crumbling.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.”
Ken Watanabe - Ra's Al Ghul

“- Professor Lillian Sloan: Bounty hunter?
- Tracker Lewis Gates: Please, civil servant. It sounds a little less...
- Professor Lillian Sloan: Barbaric?”
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Tom Berenger - Lewis Gates

“To be human means to care for each other and civilization means to work together to create a better life.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Adrian Helmsley

“- Debi Newberry: How come you never learned that it was wrong? That there are certain things you do not do, you do not do in a civilized society?
- Martin Q. Blank: Which civilizations are we talking about?
- Debi Newberry: Oh, shut up!
- Martin Q. Blank: I mean, history...
- Debi Newberry: Shut up!”

Minnie Driver - Debi Newberry
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“Their civilization was in decline, and so they abandoned their world seeking a cure for their own mortality. Their endless journey brought them to a small, blue world in the farthest corner of the galaxy. Our world.”

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“No, there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths. And from those deaths we derive the benefits of civilization, benefits we can afford so easily... because those lives were bought so cheaply.”
Richard McCabe - Arthur Hammond

“Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.”
Lynn Cohen - Golda Meir

“They live in the vastness of the Kalahari in small family groups. One family of Bushmen might meet up with another once in a few years, but for the most part they live in complete isolation, unaware there are other people in the world. In the deep Kalahari, there are Bushmen who have never seen or heard of civilized man.”
Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“How can such a civilization survive which permits their women to put things like that on their heads?”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka