The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates.

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.