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Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.
Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.
"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."
The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.
Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?
There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.