Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Art Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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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.

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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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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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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

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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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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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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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

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

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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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