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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.
Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates.
Present-Day Wickedness, Apostasy and Modern Civilization Cannot Prevent Revival.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
The sum total of each man's giving determines the standard of man's civilization.
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.