THE NEED FOR A NEW SIMPLICITY

'Without the pole-star of a new simplicity, it seems to me, civilization will continue by turns at deadlock or mad speed, like a machine out of control which bumps itself from one obstacle to another until it falls to pieces.'

Adrian Bell, The Cherry Tree, p.35.

THE CIVILIZED MAN?

'Robert Birley, headmaster of Eton when I arrived there in 1959, defined a civilized man as someone who might be the chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority and capable of following the the second lesson at Evensong in the Greek.' 

William Waldegrave, A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir, p.34. 

CIVILIZATION

'Curbing personal dreams for a greater good is a defining mark of civilization.' 

Tony Little, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education, p.10.