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It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence  (Civilization Quotes) Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it  (Civilization Quotes) It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct  (Civilization Quotes) It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length  (Civilization Quotes) Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state  (Civilization Quotes) The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization  (Civilization Quotes) Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them  (Civilization Quotes) A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace  (Civilization Quotes) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization  (Civilization Quotes) It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages  (Civilization Quotes) One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man  (Civilization Quotes) What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women  (Civilization Quotes) Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable  (Civilization Quotes) Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest  (Civilization Quotes) The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually  (Civilization Quotes) If Germany won it would change the course of our civilization and make the United States a military nation [and] it would check his policy for a better international ethical code  (Civilization Quotes) The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization  (Civilization Quotes) Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization  (Civilization Quotes) We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution  (Civilization Quotes) While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings  (Civilization Quotes) Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell  (Civilization Quotes) To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization  (Civilization Quotes) I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the Earth will be killed  (Civilization Quotes) The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers  (Civilization Quotes) God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness  (Civilization Quotes) Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization  (Civilization Quotes) In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office  (Civilization Quotes) We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do  (Civilization Quotes) The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind  (Civilization Quotes) Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things  (Civilization Quotes)
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