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.
You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on sticks?' Brother Balaam jabbed his thumb over his s...
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, an...
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who has forgotten God. Hence no manner of economic or political readjustment can possibly save our civilization; we can...
A daughter, a wife, a grandson,' You could say this place took away all I had. I could easily appear to be one of those unfortunate white men you hear about, who thought too lovingly of the other races and civilization of the world, who left his own ...
All types of societies are limited by economic factors. Nineteenth century civilization alone was economic in a different and distinctive sense, for it chose to base itself in a motive rarely acknowledged as valid in history of human societies, and c...
Tommy: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization...
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.
Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization." -Vergere
Without the library, you have no civilization.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
