Quotes 81 till 100 of 217.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
The Poisonwood Bible -
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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In its final stages the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
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In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p.321 -
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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