Civilization Deck

Famous quotes containing the words civilization and/or deck:

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)