Winston Churchill Quotes, Civilization Quotes, World Quotes

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

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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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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

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Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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