With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Civilization Quotes
Those matters (politics) are of no interest to me, I know only two terms – civilization and barbarism, and I am on the side of civilization
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
“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.
If Western man now stops thinking and dreaming the materials of new images of the future and attempts to shut himself up in the present, out of longing for security and for fear of the future, his civilization will come to an end. He has no choice but to dream or to die, condemning the […]
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts […]
