I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.
Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.
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