Civilization quotes

“About a hundred years ago he came up with a theory about the frontier. He said the frontier was a safety valve for civilization, a place for people to go to keep from goin' mad. So, whenever there were folks who couldn't fit in with the way things were, nuts, and malcontents, and extremists, they'd pack up and head for the frontier. That's how...” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Cooper - Bob Cody

“Civilization...ancient and wicked.”
Gerry Lopez - Subotai

“All great achievements arose from dissatisfaction. It is the desire to do better, to dig deeper that propels a civilization to greatness.”
Brad Renfro - Todd Bowden

“Don't be fooled about his looking civilized. They're all tricky, treacherous and immoral.”

Clara Blandick - Mrs. Jackson

“Repression is the father of neurosis, of self-hatred. Now, stress results when we fight against our impulses. We've all heard people talk about animal magnetism, the natural man. The noble savage, as if we'd lost something valuable in our long evolution into civilized human beings.”
Patrick Macnee - Dr. George Waggner

“- Grandpa Fred: Creature what is it that you want?
- Brain Gremlin: Fred, what we want is, I think, what everyone wants, and what you and your viewers have: civilization.
- Grandpa Fred: Yes, but what sort of civilization are you speaking of?
- Brain Gremlin: The niceties, Fred. The fine points: diplomacy, compassion, standards, manners,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Prosky - Grandpa Fred
Tony Randall - Brain Gremlin

“A thinning gene pool is a terrible thing to witness. Ah, civilization's crowning achievement: the cocktail hour.”
Geraldine McEwan - Miss Scattergoods

“- David Nelson: Mr. Bligh, when my spirit is gone there will be nothing but flesh remaining. I beg you, use that poor flesh to save the others.
- Lieutenant William Bligh: No, no, Mr. Nelson. We're civilised men, not savages. And as civilised men we shall die. Have no fear.”
Simon Chandler - David Nelson
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“- Fran Dodsworth: You're hopeless - you haven't the mistiest notion of civilization.
- Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, well maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization.”
Ruth Chatterton - Fran Dodsworth
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“- Professor Harold Monroe: What's exceptional about a primitive tribe like the Yacumo being... terrorized and forced into doing something they don't... they don't normally do?
- 3rd Executive: Come on, Professor! Let's be realistic. Who knows anything about the Yacumo civilization? Today, people want sensationalism. The more you rape their...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Kerman - Professor Harold Monroe
Susan Spafford - 3rd Executive

“Civil behavior is what distinguishes us from the lower forms. It's what enables us to communicate. To go about things in an orderly fashion without attacking each other like beasts in the wild. Civility must be rewarded, Captain. If it isn't rewarded, then there's no use for it. There's just no use for it at all.”
Richard Liberty - Logan

“Today's civilization is known as corrupt, decedent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely accelerating the process.”
Curd Jürgens - Stromberg

“- Johnny Mnemonic: The Black Shakes. What causes it?
- Spider: What causes it? This causes it! This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it.”
Keanu Reeves - Johnny Mnemonic
Henry Rollins - Spider

“Civilization and syphilization have advanced together.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing

“- Lilli Hargrave: There's a baby growing inside me.
- Richard Lestrange: How do you know?
- Lilli Hargrave: A woman knows these things... that's how. I won't let it be born in civilization. I want it to be born right here. Where there's no evil, and no lies, and no guns.”
Milla Jovovich - Lilli Hargrave
Brian Krause - Richard Lestrange

“Human life means very little to me at this point in time. You see, I thrive on misery. In the jungle, misery's all you got. But things are different back here in the world, or so they seem. Nobody wants to talk about pain and suffering. Everybody wants everything to be nice and civil.”
Keith David - Louis Fedders