Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, War Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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

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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

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Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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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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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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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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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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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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

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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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