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Civilization Quotes Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.
Without adventure civilization is in full decay
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice
What man calls civilization always results in deserts.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
The relationship between our civilization and the earth has been radically transformed.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
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