Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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

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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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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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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

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Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

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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

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Art Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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

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

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