Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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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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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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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 reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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

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