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Fundamentalist tendencies and movements existed, so far as I know, in all societies and civilizations.
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.
I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.
Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.
The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
We are not a civilized country if we can read in a newspaper what a lady tells her boyfriend or husband.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.