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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.
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For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western civilization is endemically sexist, and encouraging in their students ever-more-delusional forms of victimhood.
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If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.
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All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
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