“cheapen our right to call ourselves a civilized nation.”
Cherie Booth
“Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.”
Greta Garbo
“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
“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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There can be no high civility without a deep morality”
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”
Abraham Flexner
