Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues..

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war..

Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants..

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh….

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the d….

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit….

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternall….

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier..

It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribu….

History is absolutely my thing..

Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominate….

You can learn a lot of things from being in movies..

Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural po….

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed..

We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we….

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox..

There is no happiness without patriotism..

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal..

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty ….

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that gener….