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"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
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"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
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"When the toddler does something and there are consequences for his action civilization begins."
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"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
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"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest."
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"But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors."
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"Ignorance is a menace to peace."
Peace
"But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries."
Enemy
"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting."
Power
"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."
Power
"When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it."
Hatred
"The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances."
Life
"One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family."
Family
"It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores."
People
"Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed."
Nation
"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."
Intelligence
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