Civilization Quotes
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Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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To the South African parliament: I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
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If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.
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Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
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The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
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“Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our civilization. My”
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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
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Alone we are savages, together we are civilization
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We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.
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Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
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If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.
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We stand in the shadow of the Bible today as opposed to in the pages of the Bible. I think that the biblical illiteracy comes as a direct result of a failure to recognize that the DNA of western civilization comes from a biblical worldview.
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Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
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I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.
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In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.
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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
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One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.
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Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
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Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.
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Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
