A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins