It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

One person's barbarity is another person's civilisation.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.