His Civilization Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved…
— Bernard DeVoto
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The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order…
— Jacques Ellul
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The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
— Herbert Marcuse
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One…
— William Dean Howells
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Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that in his young…
— Marion G. Romney
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Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of…
— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
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The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
— William Barrett
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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an…
— George Edward Woodberry
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I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would…
— John Wyndham
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A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
— Ezra Pound
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A…
— Ezra Pound
Who Wrote These His Civilization Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 His Civilization Quotes as follows: