Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Self Quotes, Civilization Quotes

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

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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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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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

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