Famous Civilization Quotes - Famous Quotes about Civilization
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
- William Jennings Bryan
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As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.
- Emmylou Harris
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As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
- John Dewey
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
- Edmond de Goncourt
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Civilisation --a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
- Edward Abbey
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Civilization is hideously fragile; there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
- C. P. Snow
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Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
- Rebecca West
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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
- Charles Lindbergh
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I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
- Steve McQueen
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
- Allen's Law of Civilization
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It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.
- Ronald Knox
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- Agnes Repplier
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This country is so urbanized we think low-fat milk comes from cows on Nutri/System weight-loss plans. (quoted from Parliament of Whores)
- P. J. O'Rourke
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Eric Berne
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
- Margaret Mitchell
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You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
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