Quotes: civilization
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Civilization depends on morality.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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...Western Civilization began to expand in 976....The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
