Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Strong Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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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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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

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

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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

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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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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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

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

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

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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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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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