T. S. Eliot Quotes, Order 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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Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

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

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

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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

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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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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

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

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