The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.
What is the crowning glory of your civilization. . . the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline.
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world
Civilization begins with distillation
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.
I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say that she defended us while we did nothing at home but pass resolutions.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.
The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.
Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.