Os guerreiros de ca¤   na‹  o buscam mavo¤  rticas damas para o enlace epitala"  mico; mas antes as preferem do¤  ceis e facilmente troca¤ v eis por pequeninas e vola¤  teis folhas de papel a que o vulgo chamara¤   dinheiroöo 'curriculum vitae'da Civiliza c° a‹  o. The warriors here do not seek out mettlesome women for epithalamic conjunction, but prefer them docile and willing to exchange with ease their favours for those small and deliquescent leaves of paper which the masses call moneyöthe curriculum vitae of Civilization.

-Andrade, Ma¤ r io de
  Macuna|¤  ma (O Hero¤  i sem nenhum cara¤  ter) (Macunaima, 1984), ch.9.

What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their dayöthe theatres have had their dayöthe temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great movements of human thought and of human civilisation. A newspaper can send more souls to Heaven, and save more from Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New Yorköbesides making money at the same time.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the NewYork Herald,19  Aug.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

-Berlin, Sir Isaiah
  Four Essays on Liberty.

Appropriating the fruits of Christian civilisation, but rejecting the tree from which they spring.

-Bird, Isabella married name Isabella Bishop
  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan:  An  Account of  Travels on Horseback in the Interior1880 (published1885).

Their civilization is based on the most forthrightly materialistic value system in the history of mankind. If they see pie in the sky, they immediately start figuring out how to get it down onto the dinner table.

-Bonavia, David
The Chinese.

C'est aussi de tous les arts celui qui nous a rendu le service le plus important pour la vie civile. It is also of all arts the one which has done the most to advance the cause of civilization.

-Brillat-Savarin,Jean Anthelme
  Of cooking. Physiologie du gou"  t, pt.1, ch.27, section123 (translated by Anne Drayton,1970).

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.

-Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir
  The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

-Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir
  The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

Pax Romana.Where they made a desolation they called Burke it a peace.What absolutenonsense! It was a nasty, vulgar sort of civilization, only dignified by being hidden under a lot of declensions.

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.2.

America is the only country in history that miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization.

-Clemenceau, Georges
Attributed. This has also been attributed to George Bernard Shaw.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.2.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

-Coolidge, (John) Calvin
  Speech, NewYork, 27 Nov.

Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

-Cooper,James Fenimore
  The American Democrat,'On the Disadvantages of a Monarchy'.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

-Ellis, Havelock
  Little Essays of Love and Virtue.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

-Fowles,John Robert
  The French Lieutenant's Woman, ch.10.

The principal taskofcivilisation, its actual raisond'e"  tre, is to defend us against nature.

-Freud, Sigmund
  Introductory Lectures.

What do I thinkof Western civilization? I think that it would be a good idea.

-[great soul]
Attributed.

Je¤  sus a pleure¤ , Voltaire a souri; c'est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu'est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle. Jesus wept;Voltairesmiled.Of that divinetearand of that human smile the sweetness of present civilization is composed.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Speech on Voltaire's centenary, 30 May.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

-Inge,William Ralph
  The End of an  Age, ch.6.