Aaron Capps Quotes

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

History is a vision of God`s creation on the move.

The human race`s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.