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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

» Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French aviator and writer['Le Petit Prince']

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

» Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author [Prime Minister of the UK from February 20, 1874 to April 21, 1880]

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

» Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American editor, publisher, and author of the mora

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosc

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, whi

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

Civilization depends on morality.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work

» Seneca (5-65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, known as Seneca the Younger, son of Seneca the Elder and tutor of Nero

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

» Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist and essayist

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inn

» Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French aviator and writer['Le Petit Prince']

Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the ''dragon,'' in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid s

» D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer. 'Women in Love', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

» George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic [George Orwell is his pen name]

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and

» Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) French sociologist, and philosopher

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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