A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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