The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.
Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Civilization is going down the drain, and the sooner it does, the better.
