Immanuel Kant Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Justice Quotes

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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An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

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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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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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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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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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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 highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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

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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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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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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

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

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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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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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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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