It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in h...is boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined wi...thout resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely smal...l regions of specialization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ball ...up against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and co...rporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've spent too much time with the stars. You don't know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do, I'...ve spent my life at it. You don't know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do, because I know I'd cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people--the... worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism--it is mere fetish.... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. T...heir civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »