The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

...it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.