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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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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

One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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

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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

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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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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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

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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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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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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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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

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

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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

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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

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