English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
There are very serious privacy and civil liberty issues of having people permanently numbered.
There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.
Now he belongs to the ages.
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.