Keyword: Civilization

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

(1908 – 1976) publisher & author
Happiness Intelligence People

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
America Places

The English think soap is civilization.

(1834 – 1896) German historian & political writer
England Insults Places

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Conflict Killing War

Civilization: A process whereby one generation finds the questions to the previous generation’s answers.

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