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Tag Name "Civilization" (1577)

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog
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Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.
Joe Orton
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Arthur Keith
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Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
Alexander Meiklejohn
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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
W. H. Auden
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
Wallace Stevens
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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Civilization is vastly overrated.
Patricia Briggs
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
Victor Hugo
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand
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Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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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 rests on two things, said Hitzig the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?
Robertson Davies
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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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Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
Ron Suskind
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Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
David Wallace
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sigmund Freud
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