Civilization Quotes
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
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It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.
Harry Graf Kessler
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As yet, barbarism inspires the methods, and is the leading star of civilization. We have not ascended to the realm of ideas...
Ezra Heywood
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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Marianne Williamson
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Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.
Van Jones
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Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.
Amelia B. Edwards
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The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.
Will Durant
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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
Susanne Langer
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In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.
Ian Mcewan
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We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
Josiah Strong
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Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
