Civilization (n.) shows its real face, the bourgeois kind, only when its drudges revolt: then its justice turns into open savagery and lawless revenge.
Civilization (n.) raises every vice that barbarism practises simply to a compound, equivocal, hypocritical mode of existence — and no one is punished more for keeping woman a slave than man himself.
Civilization (n.) as the bourgeoisie exports it, on pain of extinction, means simply that nations must become bourgeois themselves.
Civilization (n.) after the battle faces one great problem, how to get rid of the heaps of corpses it has made.
Civilization (n.) as Peter imported it was a varnish that adapts people to the technical appliances of the West without imbuing them with its ideas.