The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic..

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization..

I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the ….

The slum is the measure of civilization..

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures..

It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The ….

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want..

The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one..

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not..

[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, wh….

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested….

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations..

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution..

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to c….

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization..

I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civi….

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with t….

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead….

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high C….

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them..

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization..