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Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.

Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.

Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.