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Civilization Quotes by Anonymous

93 Civilization quotes by Anonymous

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Anonymous observes that many fallen civilizations leave a grand sports colosseum at their center as a lasting mark. He points out that modern civilization often rests on violence, slavery, and slick rhetoric. He also argues that a university should teach more than just job skills, serving a deeper purpose.

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

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Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

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War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

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A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

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The slum is the measure of civilization.

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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

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“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.”

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The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

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No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is…

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I am but a seed planted into a corrupted garden watered by the tears of civilization.

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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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There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.

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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

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I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was…

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Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret…

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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with…

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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation…

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When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast…

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“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be…

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It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In…

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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is…

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I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.…

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and…

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Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No…

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The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and…

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Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind…

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Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence…

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To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who…

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The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes…

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“With the coming of spring they would start back to the highlands, their flocks heavy with fat and wool; the caravans loaded…

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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

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“Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.”

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China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

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“The Decline of Western Civilization Part II”

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“Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.”

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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

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