Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Essence Quotes, Civilization Quotes

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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Tags : Adam Ferrara Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Civilization Quotes

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Government Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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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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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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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Civilization Quotes , World 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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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Mind Quotes

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 believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Together Quotes