I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.
It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.
They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
