All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Civilization Quotes
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.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The civilization of man has increased just to the same extent that religious power has decreased. The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. The church never enabled a human being to make even one of these exchanges; on the contrary, all her power […]
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.
The origin of civilization is man’s determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
Mankind’s struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
