Our Civilization Quotes
154 quotes by 118 authors
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths.…
— Julian Assange
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our…
— Grover Cleveland
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...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with…
— Robert Kennedy
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Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our…
— John Hessin Clarke
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our…
— George C. Marshall
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The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
— William Wells Brown
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
— Malcolm Lowry
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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals…
— Herbert Hoover
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership
— Charles Lindbergh
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Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a…
— Calvin Coolidge
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During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.…
— Max Born
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The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect…
— George W. Bush
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Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we…
— Nicholas Kurti
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All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
— Reginald Fessenden
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As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a…
— Carl Sagan
Who Wrote These Our Civilization Quotes
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