If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Civilization Quotes
It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Those matters (politics) are of no interest to me, I know only two terms – civilization and barbarism, and I am on the side of civilization
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
“Civilization totters,” say the pessimists. “But it totters steadily onward,” cheerfully respond the men of optimistic mind.
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
