Modern cars I don't like so much.
London is a modern Babylon.
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Civilization can never be sustainable.
Civility is not simply about manners.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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