Civilization Quotes

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very… — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of… — Hannah Arendt
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 deaths.… — Julian Assange
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come… — Margaret Atwood
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. — Irving Babbitt
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover… — L. Frank Baum
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of… — Ambrose Bierce
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the… — Allan Bloom
When humor goes, there goes civilization. — Erma Bombeck
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. — Norman Borlaug
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. — Eli Broad
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every… — Jacob Bronowski
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. — Rita Mae Brown
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan

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