Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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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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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Judging Quotes

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

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

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

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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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... 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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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Childhood Quotes

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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Progress Quotes

Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Want Quotes

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Community Quotes

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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

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Tags : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Individual Quotes

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Civilization Quotes

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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