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 civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
