Victor Hugo Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Imagination Quotes

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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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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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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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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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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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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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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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

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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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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

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