Civilization Quotes - Page 6

• Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Literature History, Dumb

  Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

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• The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

  Alva Myrdal

  Age, Process, Barbarism

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• Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

  Joseph Heller

  Mean, Earth, Ends

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.287, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

  Will Durant

  War, Struggle, Rome

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Real, Lying

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Artist, Flow

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

  Alexander Meiklejohn

  Opportunity, Atheism, Burden

  Alexander Meiklejohn (2005). “Education Between Two Worlds”, p.265, Transaction Publishers

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• The slum is the measure of civilization.

  Jacob August Riis

  Cities, Slums

  "Introducing 'Breakdown: Americans on the Edge'” by Timothy L. O’Brien, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

  Frank Knox

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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• We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Order, Eating Meat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Past, Deposits

  'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) pt. 2

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

  Ayn Rand

  Progress Of Society, Political, Savages

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

  Max Nordau

  Equality, Law, Punishment

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• Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

  Tony Snow

  Thug, Liberty, Want

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• Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Pay The Price, Imagination

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• Love is the most powerful force in the world.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Love, Powerful, Mormonism

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• Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Rubble, Lit, Vulture

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• What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

  Sonny Rollins

  Years, Next, Concerned

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• Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, World, Fallen Angels

  Patrick Dixon (2011). “Futurewise”, p.127, Profile Books

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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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

  Mean, Men, Vulgarity Is

  Solomon Schechter (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”

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• As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

  John Dewey

  Art, Long, Insecurity

  John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

  George William Curtis

  Dark, Light, Justice

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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Safety, Needs

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• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Issues, Confusion

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