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Civilization Quotes
"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
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"It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum."
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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."
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"I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills."
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"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."
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"Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies."
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
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"The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits."
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"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
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"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
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"China is a civilization pretending to be a nation."
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"Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent."
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"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."
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"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested."
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"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
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"That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization."
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"To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean."
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"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
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"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
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"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
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"When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it."
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"Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered."
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"But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors."
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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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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
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"I think governments are the cancer of civilization."
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"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."
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"I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing."
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"The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years."
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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
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"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself."
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"Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not."
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"I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that."
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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant."
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"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
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"No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion."
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"Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages."
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"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
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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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"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed."
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"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
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"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so."
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"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
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