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 -
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
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
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 -
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
Jack Keane -
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 -
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
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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 -
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
Irwin Edman -
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 -
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 -
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.
Alexander Crummell
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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 is the encouragement of differences.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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 -
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
R. C. Sproul -
My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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
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The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
William Barrett -
The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
Fernand Braudel -
Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?
William Henry Harrison -
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