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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

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

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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