Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Failure Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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

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

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Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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

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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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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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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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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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

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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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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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