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.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.
I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
I would loathe to work on modern films.