“Today's civilization is known as corrupt, decedent. Inevitably, it will destroy itself. I'm merely accelerating the process.”
Curd Jürgens - Stromberg

“- James Bond: Why the orchids?
- Hugo Drax: The curse of a civilization. It was neither war nor pestilence that wiped out the race who built the great city lying around us. It was their reverence for this lovely flower. Because long-term exposure to its pollen caused sterility.”
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax

“Don't ya know the black woman is the mother of civilization?”
Spike Lee - Jimmy

“How can such a civilization survive which permits their women to put things like that on their heads?”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

“She was a good wife, a good mother, and you're responsible for her death. She was falsely accused, she couldn't get work, her son was taken away from her - all because of this committee. In the name of ridding the world of Communism, you destroyed her life.”

Robert De Niro - David Merrill