Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

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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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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Running Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.

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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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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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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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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Insecure Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our 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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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Together Quotes

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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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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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Degrees 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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Civilization Quotes , May Quotes

...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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Technology Quotes , Civilization Quotes

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Civilization Quotes

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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