The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The onset of agriculture and the emergence of village life was civilization, itself
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
The true test of a civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.