Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

About Max Nordau

Portrait of Max Nordau

Max Simon Nordau (born Simon Maximilian Südfeld; 29 July 1849 – 23 January 1923) was a Jewish Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice-president of several Zionist congresses.

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

—Julian Jaynes

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

—Havelock Ellis

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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