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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men.
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?
Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.
In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.