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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
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
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The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
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Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.
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A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
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Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
- Patriotism
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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
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It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
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