A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
Civilization begins with distillation.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Where there are humans, You’ll find flies, And Buddhas.
Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.
Civilization impairs physical fitness.
Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.
We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.