Civilization Quotes
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One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women.
Charles Fourier -
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
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We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.
Menachem Begin -
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.
Eugene J. Martin -
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Alvar Aalto -
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi -
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
Jack Keane
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The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Irwin Edman -
We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
Albert Einstein -
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Bill Gates -
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.
Flora Lewis -
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
Vaclav Smil
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.
H. Allen Smith -
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'
George Will -
The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
Fernand Braudel -
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
Alexander Crummell -
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
R. C. Sproul
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
Samuel P. Huntington -
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.
Alexander Berkman -
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Oscar Wilde -
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
William Barrett