#2,942

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,924

The majority of properly modern customs would be crimes in an authentically civilized society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,907

In addition to civilized societies and semi-civilized societies, there are pseudo-civilized societies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,905

Evening dress is the first step toward civilization.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,899

Civilization does not conquer definitively: it only celebrates sporadic victories.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,860

Someone who did not learn Latin and Greek goes through life convinced, even though he may deny it, that he is only semi-cultured.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,855

The majority of new customs are old behaviors that western civilization had shamefacedly confined to its lower-class neighborhoods.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457

#2,810

A civilized society requires that in it, as in the old Christian society, equality and inequality be in permanent dialogue.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,647

The majority of civilizations have not passed on anything more than a stratum of detritus between two strata of ashes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

#2,636

The only indices of civilization are the clarity, lucidity, order, good manners of everyday prose.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,631

Man compensates for the solidity of the structures he erects with the fragility of the foundations upon which he builds them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 425

#2,584

It is in reiterating the old commonplaces that the work of civilization, strictly speaking, consists.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#2,582

The external adversary is less the enemy of a civilization than is internal attrition.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#2,449

Civilizations enter into agony when they forget that there exists not merely an aesthetic activity, but also an aesthetic of activity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 394

#2,328

The great industrial trade fairs are the showcase of everything civilization does not require.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#2,309

We will soon reach the point where civilization declines with each additional comfort.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#2,241

Even small-town grudges are more civilized than the mutual indifference of big cities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 364

#2,239

Civilization is the sum total of internal and external repressions imposed on the amorphous expansion of an individual or a society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 364

#2,134

The forces that will ruin a civilization collaborate from its birth with the forces that construct it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 348

#2,116

Civilized individuals are not products of a civilization, but its cause.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 346