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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Order Quotes , Civilization Quotes

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

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Tags : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Defeat Quotes

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

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If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.

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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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