Civilization Quotes
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Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .
Sigmund Freud -
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
G. Stanley Hall
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
J. G. Stedman -
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant -
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Fannie Farmer -
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge -
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher -
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Victor Hugo -
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney -
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells -
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo -
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
T. S. Eliot -
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
Vance Havner -
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Camille Paglia -
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
Albert Camus -
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
E. L. Konigsburg -
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Ibrahim Babangida
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Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.
Scott Westerfeld -
Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Ray Bradbury -
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Mahatma Gandhi