To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
Civilization Quotes
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.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
Those who regard the decay of civilisation as something quite normal and natural console themselves with the thought that it is not civilisation, but “a” civilisation, which is falling a prey to dissolution; that there will be a new age and a new race in which there will blossom a new civilisation. But that is […]
