The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community..

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself..

How can you hide from what never goes away?.

Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.].

Good wares make good markets..

Nature is always hinting at us..

Only the bold get to the top..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph.

I'm actually more confident when I'm tan..

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?.

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an ant….

The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triu….

I have to chose my words carefully..

The more things you own, the more they own you..

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter….

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame….

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place..

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own..

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..