51 Movie Quotes about Civilization with Audio – Page 4

Updated: Oct 9, 2026

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31 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)

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

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

33 I wanna do something, see something. And I've been in jungles and around savages so long I gotta find out I'm back in civilization again.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

34 I may be missing some individual structures, but there are no cities, ports, roads, bridges, dams. There's just no sign of civilization at all.

Quote from Forbidden Planet (1956)

35 You must understand, these people had been completely isolated from civilization.

Quote from Airplane (1980)

36 Well, for a time, the ancients kept humans as household pets until our Lawgiver proved that man could not be tamed.

Quote from Planet of the Apes (1968)

37 You want to wipe out civilization, destroy all life on this planet!

Quote from A King in New York (1957)

38 If civilization is to survive, we must combat power until the dignity and peace of man are restored.

Quote from A King in New York (1957)

39 I've got to find some way to get back to civilization. -How, for instance? -I don't know. Pogo sticks, kiddie cars, gondolas, dog sleds...

Douglas Spencer as Scotty in The Thing from Another World

40 The greatest discovery in history up in flames. Turning a new civilization into a 4th of July piece.

Douglas Spencer as Scotty in The Thing from Another World