We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

The civility which money will purchase is rarely extended to those who have none.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Money not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

A civilization is built on what is required of men not on that which is provided for them.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split as a general thing.