Civilization Quotes
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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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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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Science is the locomotive that drives our civilization.
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Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.
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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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Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
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Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
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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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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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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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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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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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Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
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The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.
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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 truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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Civilization is paralysis.
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Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
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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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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
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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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Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
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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.
