If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.
C.S Lewis
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell