49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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.

21 The very foundations of civilization are beginning to crumble under the dread assault of that horror long feared, germ warfare.

Charlton Heston as Robert Neville in The Omega Man (1971)

22 I will find civilization, muchacho! I will bring back reinforcements!

Dwight Schultz as Howling Mad Murdock in The A-Team

23 In the days of our greatest civilization, we drank to excess. In fact, one of my ancestors, a very famous poet, was drowned in an attempt to catch the moon in the Yellow River.

Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

24 Oh, no. This could be the end of civilization as we know it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Howard Langston in Jingle All the Way (1996)

25 Wonderful improvement we're having in the town, ma'am. I did hear we're having the electric lights soon.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

26 Your civilization has not progressed beyond destruction, war and violence against yourselves and others.

Gerald Mohr as Thomas O’Bannion in The Angry Red Planet

27 We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame.

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

28 It may mean the salvation of a civilization. -Their salvation doesn't interest me! Mine does.

John Hoyt as Sydney Stanton; Larry Keating as Dr. Cole Hendron in When Worlds Collide (1951)

29 But you're a cat! -Granted. But you see, in our civilization, that's as far as we needed to evolve. We developed our brain to a fine point.

Ken Berry as Frank Wilson in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

30 You see, the Ding Dongs are an ancient civilization. Our tribal rituals and native ways have remained virtually unchanged since 1957.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield in Paradise

49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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