Civilization Quotes

Take up the White man's burden —
Send forth the best ye breed —
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild —
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

Take up the White Man's burden —
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times mad plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden —
The savage wars of peace —
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hope to nought.

Never have I doubted that the great but forgotten civilized characteristic and the great civilized talents of Turkishness will, in its progress henceforth, rise like a new sun from the high horizon of civilization for the future!

For civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Civilization is mutual aid and self-defense; culture is the judge, the lawbook and the forces of Law & Ordure.