All civilizations are born to die. Those fortunate enough to live in one should study the past to learn from its errors, and with the wisdom of hindsight strive to keep at bay for a while the drifting sands of decay.
Civilization Quotes
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Mankind’s struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
True Civilisation does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
What a country (Syria) this is! I fear I shall spend the rest of my life travelling in it. Race after race, one on top of the other, the whole land strewn with the mighty relics of them. We in Europe are accustomed to think that civilization is an advancing flood that has gone steadily […]
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Lock-and-key, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
Sauce, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
