Robert Frost Quotes, Night Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Spring Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Order Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , World 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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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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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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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

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