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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain
If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our… — Mark Twain
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our civilization is facing a radical, imminent mass change. The alternative to the hierarchical power structure is based on mutual aid and group consensus. As… — Jeremy Hammond
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal… — Philippe Starck
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who… — Fulton J. Sheen
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. — Josiah Strong
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan… — J. B. Priestley
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest? — Mark Twain
Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our… — Caroline Kennedy
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things… — James Joyce
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of… — Wendell Berry
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to… — John Boyd Orr
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. — Mary Douglas
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has… — Wilhelm Dilthey
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here… — Paul Levinson
The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we… — George Bernard Shaw
Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. — Oscar Wilde
Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but… — Theodore Roosevelt
We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is… — Vivek Wadhwa

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