Civilization Quotes
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else
Solomon Schechter
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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney
Subject: Life QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
Jacques Cousteau
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There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
Henry Louis Mencken
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified ...
Henry Beston
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Subject: Education QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum
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We`ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
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If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell
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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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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
Florence Nightingale
Subject: Civilization Quotes :: Hospitals QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way
George Shaw
Subject: Civilization QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
George Shaw
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Comfort QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will
Winston Churchill
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You can`t say civilization don`t advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
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You can`t say that civilization don`t advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos
Will Durant
Source: thinkexist.com
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change
Will Durant
