Civilization has been thrust upon me… and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.
Civilization Quotes
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened […]
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.
Say what you will against civilization, it has at least got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and the Ten Commandments.
Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
In the old days of barbarism, the people fought with hatchets. Civilized men buried the hatchet, and now fight with gossip.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
