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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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Civilization Quotes , People Quotes

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Progress Quotes

Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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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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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Birth Control Quotes

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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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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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

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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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Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Art Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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