Civilized people – Muslims, Christians and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
Civilization Quotes
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
The origin of civilization is man’s determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
Mankind’s struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
True Civilisation does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
What a country (Syria) this is! I fear I shall spend the rest of my life travelling in it. Race after race, one on top of the other, the whole land strewn with the mighty relics of them. We in Europe are accustomed to think that civilization is an advancing flood that has gone steadily […]
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Lock-and-key, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
Sauce, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
We likely put too much stock in this idea that a civilized society is best. The cant of civilization fatigues. Civilization is a fine and beautiful structure. It is as picturesque as a Gothic cathedral. But it is built upon the bones and cemented with the blood of those whose part in all its pomp […]
