Civilization Quotes
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If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.
Benoîte Groult
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On the future of the U.S., or of Western civilization in general, I tend to be quite pessimistic. I would say that today I see most of the symptoms of societies on the brink of collapse, not just in the U.S., but in the tightly interconnected societies of Western civilization - now essentially world civilization.
Arthur Demarest
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Northrop Frye
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The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.
Herbert Spencer
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No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.
Gertrude Atherton
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The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.
Paul Davies
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Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.
Theodore Roethke
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As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.
Edward Bernays
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
Victor Hugo
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Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell
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It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Will Durant
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Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected.
Thomas Sowell
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And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.
Brian Henson
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The transmission of knowledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.
Nicholas A. Basbanes
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
Will Durant
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Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
Nayantara Sahgal
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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Will Durant
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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
Ray Bradbury
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There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.
Gertrude Atherton
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You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.
William Jay Gaynor
