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154 Our Civilization quotes by 112 unique authors
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence…
— William James
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
— David Mitchell
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to…
— D. H. Lawrence
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As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the…
— Michio Kaku
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For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization.
— Ronald Reagan
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization…
— J. William Fulbright
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Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.
— I. Bernard Cohen
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Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological…
— Ray Kurzweil
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No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
— Christian Camargo
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Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help…
— Frank Pierson
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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
— Theodor Reik
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Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
— Henri Bergson
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are…
— Dr Carl Sagan
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Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have…
— Albert Schweitzer
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To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that…
— Unknown Author
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The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually
— Woodrow Wilson
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Brandon McCsw says the Western civilization was created in medieval Europe for the forms of thought and action in Modern Europe and America, which they…
— Brandon McCaw
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They're the soothsayers, all these sci-fi short-story writers. They have totally predicted our civilization and what the future is, and it's nice to read those…
— Hilarie Burton
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason.
— Unknown Author
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