If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.