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

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.