Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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Put your shoulder to the wheel.

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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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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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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 true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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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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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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

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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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Insecure 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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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

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One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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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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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

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

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