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Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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.

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.