If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Civilization Quotes
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.
Civilized nations are ones that simply can’t endure wrongs or injustice except at home.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Jungle people fight to live; civilized people live to fight.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
