Carl Sagan Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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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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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Tags : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization 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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Giving Quotes

The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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

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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Night Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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

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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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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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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

Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

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

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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

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

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

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

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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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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