All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Civilization Quotes
All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisisan may still do it. But we, who must live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The civilization of man has increased just to the same extent that religious power has decreased. The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. The church never enabled a human being to make even one of these exchanges; on the contrary, all her power […]
‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
All civilizations are born to die. Those fortunate enough to live in one should study the past to learn from its errors, and with the wisdom of hindsight strive to keep at bay for a while the drifting sands of decay.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
