“It was like something out of Lord of the Flies - one minute everything is calm and civil, the next it descends into chaos.”
Jamie Trout
“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
“What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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”
“Without adventure civilization is in full decay”
Alfred North Whitehead
