Taxes are what we pay for civilized society… A penalty on the other hand is intended altogether to prevent the thing punished.
Civilization Quotes
We are caught up in a civilization having immense drive but no direction, marvelous capacity to get there, but no idea where it is going.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country or even my race. I think it probable that civilization somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead.
I have a friend who was said to have read the Iliad ‘to make him fierce.’ I confess that I prefer to do so to keep myself civilized. For the more I live in these warlike surroundings, the more thankful I am for all the traditions of the classic culture compared to these which journalists […]
Civilization is a parasite on the man with a hoe.
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences.
