Winston Churchill Quotes, Civilization Quotes, World Quotes

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

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

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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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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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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... 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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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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