Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Modern Quotes

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Different 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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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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... 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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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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

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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Strong Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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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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

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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

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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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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

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

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Practice Quotes , Civilization 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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