Quotes with civilization

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

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

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.