Civilization Quotes
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We Filipinos are the most promising people in the world. We have unheard-of-possibilities. There have never been a people similarly situated. Here we are in the Orient with our Oriental thoughts and sentiments, but living amid a civilization more Western than was ever known in The East. The Philippines is the only country where East meets West. The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.
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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
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The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
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There is a dichotomy between people who feel economic principles should order human civilization and people who believe humanitarian principles should order human civilization. That essential disagreement is underlying practically all our world drama.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
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The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
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Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
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Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
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In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
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By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
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A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
