The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life..

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins..

I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene i….

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization..

If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the mos….

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education..

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years..

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence..

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home..

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. T….

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof..

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the s….

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization..

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civil….

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before..

Man, not the earth, makes civilization..

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants..

But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect'….

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more….

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also be….