Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.