453 quotes found
“Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.”
“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”
“We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed cree...”
“A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Wit...”
“Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”
“The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.”
“A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.”
“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
“A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.”
“If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.”
“To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.”
“A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”
“We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.”
“The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.”
“Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.”
“I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...”
“It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what ...”
“Civilization is vastly overrated.”
“There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them a...”
