Aberjhani Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Humanity Quotes

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Government Quotes , Civilization Quotes

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Judging Quotes

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

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Tags : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Giving Quotes

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Essence Quotes , Civilization Quotes

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Air Quotes , Civilization Quotes

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Needs Quotes

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Art Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Civilization Quotes

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Long Quotes