Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Self Quotes, Civilization Quotes

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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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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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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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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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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

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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

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

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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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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The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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