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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.
... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.
A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.
You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.
Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Our entire civilization is built on a foundation of unfixable bullshit.