The origin of civilization is man’s determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
Civilization Quotes
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.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
