Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Civilization Quotes

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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

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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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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

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

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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

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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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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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

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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 universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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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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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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