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Civilization Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win…
- Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than…
- I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty…
- In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
- So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are…
- Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to…
More Civilization Quotes
- 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