Mark Twain Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Giving Quotes

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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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Lessons Quotes

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

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Tags : Adrienne Clarkson Quotes , Mean 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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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Law Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

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

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

If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Years Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes