Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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

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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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One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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

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

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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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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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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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

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

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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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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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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

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