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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
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
- Embraces
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
- Free
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Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.
- I Am
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I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020