“Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are saying or doing they will respond differently. - Nabil N. Jamal”
Nabil N. Jamal
“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none”
Benjamin Franklin
“Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will”
Winston Churchill
“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”
