Civilization Quotes
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Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
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Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.
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I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
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The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.
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The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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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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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.
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At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.
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Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.
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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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Civilization is paralysis.
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The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.
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Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
