Joseph Bottum said this quote

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

~ Joseph Bottum

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

~ Joseph Bottum

(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

~ Joseph Bottum

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

~ Joseph Bottum