Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Civilization Quotes
“Civilization totters,” say the pessimists. “But it totters steadily onward,” cheerfully respond the men of optimistic mind.
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
Civilized nations are ones that simply can’t endure wrongs or injustice except at home.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Jungle people fight to live; civilized people live to fight.
Something ought to be done about these “primitive” people who live in various parts of the world, and don’t know a thing but to live off what nature provides. You would think they would get civilized and learn to live off each other like us civilized folks do.
In his heart, mankind has never been able to evolve past the tribal stage. Civilization does not take the place of tribalism, but if it is well designed, it can control it.
