Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Civilization Quotes
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society… A penalty on the other hand is intended altogether to prevent the thing punished.
We are caught up in a civilization having immense drive but no direction, marvelous capacity to get there, but no idea where it is going.
Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
We likely put too much stock in this idea that a civilized society is best. The cant of civilization fatigues. Civilization is a fine and beautiful structure. It is as picturesque as a Gothic cathedral. But it is built upon the bones and cemented with the blood of those whose part in all its pomp […]
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilisation we still have.
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.
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.
