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Tag Name "Civilization" (1576)

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Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.
Derrick Jensen
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Civilization can never be sustainable.
Derrick Jensen
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
David Goodstein
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz
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Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
Muriel Barbery
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Jules Verne
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Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
Octavia Butler
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Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.
Steve Allen
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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Civilization itself is housed in the human being.
Nayantara Sahgal
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Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
William Ralph Inge
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges Bernanos
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Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.
Harold Laski
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Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
Laura Anne Gilman
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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
Gregory David Roberts
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
Ralph Chaplin
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Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.
Leo Errera
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Civilization is a perishable commodity.
Helen Clark MacInnes
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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde
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Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.
Helen McCloy
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Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
Henepola Gunaratana
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