What did W. H. Auden mean by: I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. - W. H. Auden Poet · England Copy
+ You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated. Feraz Zeid, June 2, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Poet, Poetry, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Success, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Time will say nothing but I told you so. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, W. H. Auden, Time, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings. Feraz Zeid, August 2, 2023December 12, 2023, W. H. Auden, Art, Feelings, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’ Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, W. H. Auden, Art, Get Well, Nature, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, Addiction, Damnation, Sin, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, W. H. Auden, End, Novel, Parades, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
+ A shilling life will give you all the facts. Feraz Zeid, September 16, 2023December 26, 2023, W. H. Auden, Fact, 0 - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens Journalist · USA
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. - Jeff Koons Artist · USA
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization. - Jeremy Seabrook
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. - Jerome Frank Lawyer · USA
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. - William Kristol
