The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.
Civilization Quotes
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.
To have doubted one’s own first principles, is the first mark of a civilized man.
What man calls civilization – always results in deserts.
Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
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 begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country or even my race. I think it probable that civilization somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead.
I have a friend who was said to have read the Iliad ‘to make him fierce.’ I confess that I prefer to do so to keep myself civilized. For the more I live in these warlike surroundings, the more thankful I am for all the traditions of the classic culture compared to these which journalists […]
