By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have. – Julian Assange
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. – Lytton Strachey
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. – Ludwig von Mises
We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn’t it frustrating? Wouldn’t it be great if we could just do what we needed to do? – Lee Child
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization’s hardest winters. – John Fowles
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back. – Margaret Atwood
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. – Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. – Ralph Chaplin
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. – Orison Swett Marden
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. – Rutherford B. Hayes
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? – Pierre Schaeffer
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. – Pierre Schaeffer
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. – Sam Harris
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. – Robert Green Ingersoll
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. – Samuel P. Huntington
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization. – Richard Foreman
