Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Civilization depends on morality.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.