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Civilization Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
- Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
- Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
- What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the…
- No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity…
- Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
- We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we…
- I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation…
- We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
- There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been…
- The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health,…
- The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
- Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
- 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…
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- 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