Civilization Quote by Bill Moyers

“I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.” quote by Bill Moyers — Download Open image

“I take "We, the People" seriously because I don't know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.”

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

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“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.”

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