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Civilization Quotes by Mark Twain
- Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The…
- The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
- Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
- Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?
- There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
- The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of…
- My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our…
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
- Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
- Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
- Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
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