49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about civilization, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 But why Earth, Jor-El? They're primitives thousands of years behind us.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

2 I feel like the protohuman, coming out of the forest primeval and seeing the moon for the first time and throwing rocks at it.

JoBeth Williams as Diane in Poltergeist (1982)

3 In fact, civilization and syphilization have advanced together.

Anthony Hopkins as Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

4 I always think tea is so civilized, don't you? -I didn't realize this custom had reached the colonies.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

5 An American would despise himself for living off his wife. -But you see, I'm English. And we have none of these prejudices in the old and more developed civilizations.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow; Anjanette Comer as Aimée Thanatogenos in The Loved One (1965)

6 Without law, commander, there is no civilisation.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

7 That's just my point. Here, there is no civilisation. -Then we have the opportunity to introduce it.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson; William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

8 Where there was desert, now there's a town. Where there was robbery, there's trade. Where there was despair, now there's hope. Civilization. I'll do anything to protect it.

Tina Turner as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

9 The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

Peter Jones as The Hitchhiker’S Guide To The Galaxy Book in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

10 A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips)

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