Civilization Quotes
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Mankind Quotes
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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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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 culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
Subject: Civilization Quotes :: Culture QuotesSource: thinkexist.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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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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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civili...
Margaret Mead
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good ...
Dr. Carl Sagan
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That`s here. That`s home. That`s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and e...
Dr. Carl Sagan
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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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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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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Civilization Quotes :: Familiarity QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
Ayn Rand
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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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