Winston Churchill Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Political Quotes

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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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Space Quotes

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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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fall Quotes , Civilization Quotes

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

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

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Mind Quotes

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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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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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Liberty Quotes