Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Mind Quotes

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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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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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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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. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

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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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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Power Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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

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

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

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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

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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

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