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 Quotes
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.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened […]
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.
Say what you will against civilization, it has at least got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and the Ten Commandments.
