‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
Civilization Quotes
Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
All civilizations are born to die. Those fortunate enough to live in one should study the past to learn from its errors, and with the wisdom of hindsight strive to keep at bay for a while the drifting sands of decay.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this the uncivilized have not forgiven them.
I think it would be a good idea. (when asked what he thought of Western civilization)
Now the great and fatal fruit of our civilization, which is civilization based on knowledge, and hostile to experience, is boredom. All our wonderful education and learning is producing a grand sum-total of boredom. Modern people are inwardly thoroughly bored. Do as they may, they are bored. They are bored because they experience nothing. And […]
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
