Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Civilization Quotes
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Is man’s civilization only a wrapper, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Civilized people – Muslims, Christians and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.
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 […]
