<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Civilization - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country ;turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8827]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8820]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2413]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2413</guid></item></channel></rss>