Alan Thein Durning Quotes, Destiny Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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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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 sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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

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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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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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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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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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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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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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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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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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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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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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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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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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