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Civilization Quotes

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard

Fear Great America Civilization Turn

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Men Present Civilization Task Slaves

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Robert A. Heinlein

Me Civilization Politeness Sine

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

People Civilization Way Absurdity

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Civilization Nation Pretending China

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Civilization Human Farmers Follow

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

Law Civilization Never Necessity

While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.

Culture Civilization Islam Turn Rap

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Change World Process Civilization

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

Family Freedom Liberty Civilization

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Intelligence Civilization Own Weight

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

Wisdom Tradition Civilization Source

What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.

Discipline Tradition Civilization Our

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Culture Values Civilization Duty Try

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Man Distance Civilization Between

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America Country Civilization Without

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Intelligence Civilization Product

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Civilization Done Development Active

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

Alfred de Vigny

Details Values Civilization Events

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Law Place Civilization Emergency Far

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Pierre Schaeffer

Hope History Civilization Will Out

Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

Law Democracy World Civilization

We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

History Humanity Civilization Living

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Edmond de Goncourt

Life World Die Back Civilization

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