There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.