Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
You can't say civilization don't advance...in every war they kill you a new way.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.
We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.