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Civilization Quotes

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech Civilization Itself

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

Richard Foreman

Feeling Play Civilization Twilight

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

Civilization Development Paper Center

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Lincoln Steffens

Art Flowers Border Civilization Like

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.

Culture American Civilization Being

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Legend Civilization Leaving Brilliant

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Georges Bernanos

Men Enough Civilization Never May

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Me Civilization Content Shapes Used

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

America Environment Civilization Up

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Business Creating New Civilization

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

History War Civilization Been Our

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

Freedom Civilization Real Lies

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Green End Civilization Renaissance

In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

Alexandra Petri

Good Caring Society Civilization Who

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Fire Discovery Civilization Wheel

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education Civilization Transmission

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Civilization Making Civil Persons

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Positive Diversity Civilization More

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Culture Architecture Civilization

America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization.

America Civilization Offensive Our

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Creativity Unique Civilization Awards

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 Yves Cousteau

Sea Plant Civilization Farming Must

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Time Angry Person Civilization Rock

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

Life Beautiful Civilization Noble

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