Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Civilization Quotes
In the old days of barbarism, the people fought with hatchets. Civilized men buried the hatchet, and now fight with gossip.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisisan may still do it. But we, who must live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Is man’s civilization only a wrapper, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Civilized people – Muslims, Christians and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
