Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over ….

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war..

The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Gr….

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled….

While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty….

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization..

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the gr….

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they ….

What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal cherished in western democratic civili….

The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage dr….

Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. ….

The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of ….

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it..

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, w….

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it..

In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. ….

"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world with figures and….

...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit i….

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization p….

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.