“The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.”
Aharon Appelfeld
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character”
Henry Louis Mencken
“There can be no high civility without a deep morality”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.”
“Without adventure civilization is in full decay”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.”
