The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.