Say what you will against civilization, it has at least got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and the Ten Commandments.
Civilization Quotes
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
In the old days of barbarism, the people fought with hatchets. Civilized men buried the hatchet, and now fight with gossip.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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.
