文明
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew.
The true measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.