49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 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)

42 What does he do? He decides to commit suicide in protest against the state of civilization.

Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe (1941)

43 An advanced civilization is, by definition, not barbaric.

Pierce Brosnan as Donald Kessler in Mars Attacks! (1996)

44 The Martian civilization has clearly developed... under the surface of the planet.

Jack Nicholson as The President in Mars Attacks! (1996)

45 You mean to say you've got no feeling for the country, no pride in seeing a civilization carved out of a wilderness?

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

46 It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them: Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai.

Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

47 Indeed, the fact that many of these tools are unknown to us, suggests a culture which, in certain ways, equals our own.

Charlton Heston as George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1968)

48 And they are involved in that sex problem about which the ethics and ideals of Christian civilization are concerned.

Gary Oldman as Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

49 There's nothing to be ashamed of. Under this thin veneer of civilization, we're all savages. Man, woman... hopelessly enmeshed.

Marilyn Monroe as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

49 Movie Quotes about Civilization (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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