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

Last updated on: June 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about civilization, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

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

Quote from 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.

Quote from The Skin Game (1931)

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

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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.

Quote from Garfield in Paradise