H. G. Wells Quotes, Race Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

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It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Simple Quotes , Civilization Quotes

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Modern Quotes

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

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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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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Cities Quotes

I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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Tags : Adam Ferrara Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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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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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

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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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Long Quotes

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Progress Quotes

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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Tags : Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes , Race Quotes , Civilization Quotes