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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."
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Explore more quotes by Arthur Keith
"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
Building
"Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever."
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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."
War
"In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended."
Time
"A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another."
Man
"Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities."
Nature
"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."
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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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"Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects."
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"My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics."
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