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Civilization Quotes
"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other."
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"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
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"New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you."
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"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."
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"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law."
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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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"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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"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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"Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting."
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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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"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."
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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others."
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"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
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"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."
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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression."
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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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"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed."
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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 Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."
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"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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"I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses."
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"Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta."
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"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
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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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"I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise."
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"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."
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"Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization."
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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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"Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants."
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"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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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 collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization."
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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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"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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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 communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
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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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"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."
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