Quotes 181 till 200 of 210.
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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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Western civilization is precious not because it is universal but because it is unique.
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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way.
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You can’t say that civilization don’t advance ... for in every war they kill you a new way.
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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