Every Civilization Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
— Aldous Huxley
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Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
— Frank Herbert
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly,…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
— Samuel P. Huntington
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The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and…
— Sri Aurobindo
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This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been…
— Prem Rawat
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Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and…
— Frank Herbert
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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,…
— Mark Twain
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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…
— D. H. Lawrence
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What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do…
— Frank Herbert
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The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in…
— E. Digby Baltzell
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Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
— Shirin Ebadi
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Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it…
— Scott Westerfeld
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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum…
— Thomas Friedman
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If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and,…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Who Wrote These Every Civilization Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Every Civilization Quotes as follows: