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" Quotes and Sayings About civilization

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Any Creek Get Government
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It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Across Ages Books Civilization
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When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Man Loves Woman Become
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
Civilization Always Danger When
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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 girlfriends.

Because Been Cave Civilization
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture Art Civilization Mother
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Christian Civilization Other Possessing
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Ability Civilization Cultivate Human
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Society Make Our Right
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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

True Hypocrite Knows He
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Barbarians Before Born Civilization
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Cultivation
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Arts Begins Civilization Farmers
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Accept Barbarism Be Prepared Civilization
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Arranged Civilization Crucial Depend
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Abolish Civilization Doomed Mankind
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Anything Civilization Could History
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Achieved Against Civilization Human
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

Bible Book Civilization Fast
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization First Founder Human
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Any Before Civilization Gift
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Angry Angry Person Began Cast
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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Conservation Science War
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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Civilization Exciting Future Inspiring
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Civilization Culture Future Memory
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Slight Gentle Luxury Air
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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Cannot Chaos Civilization Creates
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Civilization Goes Humor When
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Civilization Destroyed Generally Gross
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

About Actual Cities Civilization
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Advance Backwards Civilization Flow
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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Robot Century Place Slave
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Despite all the achievements of civilization, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
Human Achievement Civilization Creatures
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Another Before Believe Civilization
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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Western Civilization Elders Books
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The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

Solution Mankind Technical Civilization
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Hands Female Left Grass
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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

Animals Civilization Turn Vegetables
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

First Day Sheer Driving
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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.

Civilization Commitment Company Effort
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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.

Just Just As Much Made Money
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Am Before Began Civilization
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