What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.