The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
Civilization Quotes
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 bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
