A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.