Civilization Quotations Collection
2122 Civilization quotes by 1210 unique authors
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We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the…
— Norman Mailer
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Evolution is too important not to be the root, the trunk and the canopy of popular culture. And too significant not to be the foundation,…
— Steve Fowler
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If anything, todays patterns are beginning to resemble the multi-layered complexities of the high middle ages, and not simply as played out in Europe. The…
— John Ralston Saul
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Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and America, which they…
— Brandon McCaw
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They're the soothsayers, all these sci-fi short-story writers. They have totally predicted our civilization and what the future is, and it's nice to read those…
— Hilarie Burton
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Brandon McCaw says when the Athenians and the Spartans found themselves as war witgh one another in 431 B.C.E., both sides believed a conclusion would…
— Brandon McCaw
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A man that fiscally abuses a woman is not worthy of being called human,but an animal that should be caged and kept away from civilization.
— Unknown Author
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Brandon McCaw did a story based on Greek poets like Hesiod described a heroic age when great men mingled with gods and powerful kingdoms contended…
— Brandon McCaw
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Brandon McCaw did a 500 page essay based on the real founders of Rome were a tribe called the Latins, descendents of a cluster of…
— Brandon McCaw
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The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter of civilization
— Hussein Nishah
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason.
— Unknown Author
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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We cannot use today's civilized standards to judge the mistake of the past.
— Jackie Chan
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Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints Of the North have earned thiscrumb by their complaints.
— Mason Cooley
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A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do…
— Azgraybebly Joslan
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Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majorityis material. When these worlds meet occasionally,…
— Paul Klee
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There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.
— Ezra Pound
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult attimes to justify by logic, but…
— Unknown Author
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If civilization is to survive, theprinciples of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Mostimportant of all the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages,…
— Jefferson Davis
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