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How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.
Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.