Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
