Civilization Quotes - Page 8

• Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, History, Unnecessary

  "Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

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• A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Issues, Important, Way

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• Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  Defeat, Genocide, Planets

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• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Men, Rome

  "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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• Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Knowledge And Power, Doe, Links

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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Invention, Century, Collectivism

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Science, Chinese, Heritage

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

  James Norman Hall

  Suffering, Decay

  James Norman Hall (1942). “Under a Thatched Roof”

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• The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Intermittent, Has Beens

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• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

  John Boyd Orr

  Unity, Age, Empires

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• A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

  Jose Bergamin

  Different, Weight, Volume

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• That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

  John Amery

  Political, Prejudice, Labels

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• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

  F. L. Lucas

  Art, War, Tired

  F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Voice, Individuality, Tribes

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• Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

  Mark Twain

  Home, Two, Kind

  Mark Twain (1970). “King Leopold's Soliloquy”, p.79, LeftWord Books

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• The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.

  Thurman Arnold

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lasts, Resorts, Force

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• Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

  Maude Meagher

  Understanding, Executive Power, Executives

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• And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Gdp, Ties, Western Culture

  "The house: its origins and evolution".

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• It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

  Jerry Springer

  Gdp, Gum, Ends

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• In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

  Abdus Salam

  Respect, Gone, History Of Science

  Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

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• It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Book, Age, Harvest

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  Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Change, Wisdom, Art

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct 1958.

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• There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

  Walter Benjamin

  Barbarism, Documents

  "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.

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• The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Society, Charity

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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