Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.