50 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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.

11 Civilization as we know it depends on me and and, to a lesser extent, you.

Zach Braff as Chicken Little; Adam West in Chicken Little

12 What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you can let it crumble to dust!

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

13 You weren't here when the real disturbances began. Civilization tried to destroy itself.

Nigel Hawthorne as Raymond Cocteau in Demolition Man

14 It will never work. People don't want war. It destroyed this planet, its people and all records of past civilizations.

Quote from Wizards (1977)

15 A dark age, indeed! Age of inconvenience. No plumbing. No electricity. No nothing.

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

16 What do you think becomes of people when their civilization breaks up? Those who have brains and courage come through all right. Those that haven't are winnowed out.

Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939)

17 I like the country fine. As for civilization, I've got nothing in particular against it. I can take it or leave it alone.

James Cagney as The Oklahoma Kid in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

18 It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of humanity.

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

19 Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization.

Dave Thomas as Doug Mckenzie in Strange Brew (1983)

20 They're like locusts. They're moving from planet to planet. Their whole civilization.

Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore; Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)