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Civilization Quotes
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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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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"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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"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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"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."
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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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"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization."
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"Libraries, museums, universities, everything we designed and built over six thousand years. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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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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"Knowledge is the key driver of the progress 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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"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
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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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"There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City."
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"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."
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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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"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
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"Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people."
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"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure."
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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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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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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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"No civilization can thrive or survive if it refuses to adapt or change."
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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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"The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more."
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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized."
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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
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"After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
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"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization.In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition.We define it as interplanomics."
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"Handwriting enables civilization."
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