Best Our Civilization Sayings
154 Our Civilization quotes by 112 unique authors
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917…
— William Thomas Walsh
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It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live…
— Jan Struther
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The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical…
— James Howard Kunstler
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
— John Boyd Orr
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
— John Boyd Orr
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Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to…
— Unknown Author
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I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.
— Nhat Hanh
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Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions…
— Edmund Bourne
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If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just…
— Jack Handey
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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
— Theodor Reik
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A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our…
— Albert Einstein
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I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say…
— Unknown Author
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
— Josiah Strong
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Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.
— Reynolds Price
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If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
— Karl Popper
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It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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If we believe in the rebirth of our civilization... then clearly this renaissance must begin in the chambers of our own hearts... We cannot wait…
— Georg Feuerstein
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The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to…
— Andrew Harvey
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The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
— Mark Twain
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