The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.