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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,… — Bernard DeVoto
- The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The… — Jacques Ellul
- The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization — Herbert Marcuse
- 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… — William Dean Howells
- Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that… — Marion G. Romney
- Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
- The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett
- A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry
- I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of… — John Wyndham
- 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
- One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes… — Ezra Pound