Civilization does not consist in the eschewing of garlic or the keeping clean of a man’s finger-nails. It may lead to such delicacies, and probably will do so. But the man who thinks that civilization cannot exist without them imagines that the church cannot stand without the spire.
Civilization Quotes
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, window on the world, “lighthouses” (as a poet) “erected in the sea of time.” They are companions, teachers, […]
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting. In Australia, where people are few, and rabbits are many, I watched the whole populace satisfying the primitive impulse in the primitive manner by the […]
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are […]
Civilization is just a temporary failure of entropy.
If we are to preserve civilization we must first remain civilized.
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
