111 Quotes About Civilisation

... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.

... perhaps vulgarity is the price one pays for possessing no civilisation of one's own.

Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill’s due. Today.

I find forgiveness overrated. There are times and places when it’s appropriate. But not when the demand that you forgive is used to keep you in your place. With Queter’s help I can remove Raughd from this place, permanently. I will try to do more if I can

Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.

In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best in them. 88

A state that employs torture invites barbarism and deserves nothing better than to suffer the harvest of its own excesses.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

...и най-внушителните съоражения в основата си израстват от пясък. Именно той е канавата, от която се появява един от най-внушителните символи на цивилизацията - пътят. Така както в един дворец не може да има само мрамор, така и пътят започва от прашинката. А не е ли така и с живота ни? Колко пясък трябва да изгребе търсачът на съкровища, за да достигне до една трошица злато?