“Civilization is at the cross-roads. The issues are now so obvious that no argument is necessary. Forces of tyranny are arrayed against those who are minded for liberty and peace. Humanity is dividing ...”

Civilization

“If we mark civilisation to be the state in which men have the steam-engine, or printing, or guns, or any of the higher tokens of our civilisation, we make ourselves to have been too lately wholly unci...”

Civilization

“History cannot be written as if it belonged to one group [of people] alone. Civilization has been gradually built up, now out of the contributions of one [group], now of another. When all civilization...”

Civilization

“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Civilization

“Civilization is by its nature bourgeois in the deepest spiritual sense of the word. 'Bourgeois' is synonymous precisely with the civilized kingdom of this world and the civilized will to organized pow...”

Civilization