Quotes with civilization

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  • Alva Myrdal The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Karl Marx The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry James The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Will Durant The family is the nucleus of civilization.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant The family is the nucleus of civilization.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Cyril Connolly The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Raymond Chandler The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Sigmund Freud The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. 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
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Havelock Ellis The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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