The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmon...
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displa...
Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children are constantly exploring, experimenting, testing and ...
Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.
You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice whe...
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitz...
Even if we're among the lucky few who benefit from civilization, we find ourselves curiously unsatisfied, plagued by stress, worry, and conflict... Like the addict who believes against all evidence that what he can't give up won't lead to suffering a...
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
Real freedom lies in wildness,not in civilization!!
Gullibility is a knife at the throat of civilization.
Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
The slum is the measure of civilization.
In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society.
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
