Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Defeat 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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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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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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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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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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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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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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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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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 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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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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

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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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