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Civilization

«The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade»
«The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons»
«There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character»
«The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.»
«The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -»
«There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure»
«There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Civilization | Keywords: adopt, lift
«The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by»
«There can be no high civility without a deep morality»
«The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.»

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