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India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day.
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.
Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.
If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.
Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.
The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.
To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.