Civilization Quotes
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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.
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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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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 has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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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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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
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Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
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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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There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.
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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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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
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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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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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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
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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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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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.
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A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
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Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service.
