“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
“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.”
Oscar Wilde
“The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”
“Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.”
George William Russell
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
Benjamin Franklin
