Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are […]
Civilization Quotes
Civilization is just a temporary failure of entropy.
If we are to preserve civilization we must first remain civilized.
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Those who regard the decay of civilisation as something quite normal and natural console themselves with the thought that it is not civilisation, but “a” civilisation, which is falling a prey to dissolution; that there will be a new age and a new race in which there will blossom a new civilisation. But that is […]
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
