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Civilization Quotes
"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
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"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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"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."
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"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
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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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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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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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"The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves."
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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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"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
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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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"It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum."
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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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"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
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"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
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"The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue " therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change."
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"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."
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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."
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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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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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"Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest."
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"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
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"The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion."
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"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
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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 slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."
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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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"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
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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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"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."
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"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind."
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"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."
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"New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages."
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"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."
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"Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make."
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"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
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"Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon."
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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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"Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization."
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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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"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
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