- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization Quotes
Thoughts on what societies leave behind.
These lines take a wide view of civilization, from questioning claims about lost ancient cultures to noting how useful ideas can curdle over time. Related reading includes History quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
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Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 office.
- Nov 07, 2020