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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure

John Dewey

The slum is the measure of civilization

Jacob Riis

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Ariel Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos

Will Durant

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Will Durant

Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Human beings are “emotional amoral egoists”, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Wallace Stevens

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

David Hare

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

EMILE ZOLA

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle

A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.

Harry Golden

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Richard Bach

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.

Martin H. Fischer

Property is the pivot of civilization

Leon Samson

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Carrie P. Snow

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Brian Aldiss

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