I look much more civilized than I actually am.
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him some schematic lessons. The Liberals, he said, were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institu...
The right answer to a fool is silence.
To be a fool at the right time is also an art.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' 'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claimin...
A BILL OF ASSERTIVE RIGHTS I: You have the right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself. II: You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for justify...
No one washes their hands after they piss unless they’re in a public place. If I’m at the airport, or a restaurant, and someone else is there, I’ll soap up for the sake of civilization, but it’s only for show, I don’t really care if I have ...
The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artiller...
The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath is a gift and every person ...
The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else. That higher civilization doesn’t have to be another country. It can be the past instead—the U...
