Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
![“It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in…” quote by Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ebf/rabindranath-tagore-383_quote_it-is-not-easy-to-get-rid-of-weeds-but-i_1940521.jpg)