Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.
The life of the arts... is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
Captain Stanley: I will civilize this land.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
