49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

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

Quote from Airplane (1980)

33 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)

34 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)

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

Quote from A King in New York (1957)

36 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)

37 How long's this been going on? -Since the town got civilized.

Quote from The Magnificent Seven (1960)

38 We Greeks are the chosen, the elect. Our culture is the best, our civilization the best, our men the best.

Aristotle in Alexander the Great (1956)

39 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

40 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...