Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Cities Quotes

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

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

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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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NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

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

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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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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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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

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

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The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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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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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 have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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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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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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