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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Civilization Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes
  • Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Kings Quotes , Civilization Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Class Quotes