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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen… — John Ralston Saul
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do. — Judy Grahn
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can… — Carl Sagan
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents… — Margaret Sanger
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must… — John F. Kennedy
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find… — Herbert Butterfield
It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel… — Ruth Bernhard
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. — Woodrow Wilson
BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man… — Ambrose Bierce
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with… — Karl Popper
If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above. — Henry Demarest Lloyd
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be… — Alva Myrdal
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized,… — Alva Myrdal
Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us. — William H. Calvin
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles… — Al Gore
Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation. — Mason Cooley
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else available.… — P.J. O'Rourke
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything our civilization has produced is entombed. — W G Sebald
I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way.… — Unknown Author
The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both… — Tawakkol Karman
The destructive impact of psychiatry upon our civilization has been given far too little attention, and the role of psychiatry in Nazi Germany almost no… — Peter Breggin
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It… — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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