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Civilization Quotes

Civilization is a product of desire and luxury. In its real context, civilization may not be a huge achievement considering mankind's innate greed for more power, money and luxury but, the fact that we have evolved from raw meat eaters to propagators of cutlery usage is quite a development in itself. We don't have to hunt for food anymore and that, dear friend, is civilization in its natural form. Read these quotes about civilization to have a better understanding of civilization and its foundations.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
Business
David Graeber

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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
Patrick Stewart

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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Men Unpleasantness Blame Weak Point
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Everything is politics.
Anger Politics Capability Reality
Thomas Mann

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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Living
Camille Paglia

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It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
Ben Shapiro

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Religion Childhood Contradiction Discontentment
Thomas Paine

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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Humor
Erma Bombeck

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Toil
Nikola Tesla

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To go out and murder innocent civilians.
Death Assassination Incorruptibility Killing
Osama bin Laden

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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Sadness Problems Ridicule School
Thomas More

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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Urge
Sigmund Freud

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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Nikki Giovanni

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
America Country
Oscar Wilde

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Technology
Ambrose Bierce

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Struggles History
Mao Zedong

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Work Greatness
Simone Weil

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Life
Henry James

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Smile Grace
Victor Hugo

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In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.
Future
Elon Musk

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The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Justice
Sigmund Freud

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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Benefit
Calvin Coolidge

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Liberty
Sigmund Freud

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I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace of Aphrodite, the Crossroads of Civilization, and, I might add, a genuine strategic partner to the United States of America.
Joe Biden

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
World Youth
Helen Keller

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By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.
Time
Julian Assange

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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil

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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Good
Mahatma Gandhi

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While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.
Culture Islam
Ben Shapiro

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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

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Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.
History Language
Emmanuel Macron

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Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
Domination
Ronald Reagan

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