Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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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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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

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

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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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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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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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I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

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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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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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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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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

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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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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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