The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization..

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day..

The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Wester….

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy..

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedo….

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is ….

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades..

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art ….

For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the ….

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a ra….

AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our….

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain..

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some s….

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print..

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress..

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities….

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite..

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization..

When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aim….

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few..