Civilization Quotes

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

Richard Harding Davis

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Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.

Marine Le Pen

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It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Leslie Caron

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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Hunter S. Thompson

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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Henry David Thoreau

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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

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When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

Elon Musk

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We definitely don't want to go through another Ice Age or another natural cycle of global warming. Both happen over a long period of time. It would be disastrous for our civilization, and not just for us but many other species.

David Grinspoon

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

Charles Lindbergh

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Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

Andrew Weil

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

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A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

John Lothrop Motley

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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

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To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.

John R. Allen

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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Samuel P. Huntington

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The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Aly Khan

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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Patrick Stewart

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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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'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Jacob K. Javits

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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud

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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

George Edward Woodberry

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