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Civilization Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
- The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
- Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
- The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization…
- Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to…
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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… — 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… — 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… — Julian Assange
- Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and… — 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… — Edward Abbey
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — 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… — Ambrose Bierce