Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, pessaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

The United States will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men ... shall we be able to speak of mankind as civilized.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,-no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.