Robert Frost Quotes, Night Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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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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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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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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Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

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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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One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

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