Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
Civilization Quotes
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.
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
We’re a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. (“Dilbert”)
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
