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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into reverse by celebrity worship to give us a plethora of ancient deities to follow.
- People
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The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
- Humor
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Me
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Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
- First
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From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
- Mother
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Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
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Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!
- Exhilaration
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
- Death
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
- Practice
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Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
- Last
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Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.
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