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.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

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

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

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

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.