Civilization Quotes
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Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.
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I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
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Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
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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.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
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The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.
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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
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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.
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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.
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The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.
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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.
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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
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Indian civilization has had the unique honour of demonstrating to the world that man does not live by bread alone. Cultural, moral and spiritual values have always formed the fundamental underpinning of our society. To-day there are signs of the weakening of the moral and spiritual fibre in our public life with evils of communalism, w:Casteismcasteism, violence and corruption bedevilling our society.
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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.
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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.
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The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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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.'
