Victor Hugo Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Imagination Quotes

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

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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

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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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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

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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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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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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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

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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

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

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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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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Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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

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

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