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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.