The boons of civilization are so noisily cried up by sentimentalists that we are all apt to overlook its disadvantages. Intrinsically, it is a mere device for regimenting men. Its perfect symbol is the goose-step. The most civilized man is simply that man who has been most successful in caging and harnessing his honest and […]
Civilization Quotes
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
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.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
