We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.

I speak gibberish to the civilized world and it replies in kind.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.