In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obvio….

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted len….

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet..

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens..

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the ….

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity..

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again..

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization..

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and ….

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearni….

I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a religion can contain the whol….

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scien….

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, th….

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to….

It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be….

Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury ….

The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for..

Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric ….

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo..

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administ….

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work..