“ When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. ”
- Bourke Cockran- Copy
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“ The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there. ”
- Edouard Manet- Copy
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“ The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
- 478
“ It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ”
- Henry Allen- Copy
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“ But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. ”
- Herbert Butterfield- Copy
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“ Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ”
- Jane Addams- Copy
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“ Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. ”
- Julian Jaynes- Copy
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“ Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. ”
- Max Nordau- Copy
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“ America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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“ Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ”
- Will Durant- Copy
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“ You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ LOCK-AND-KEY, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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“ Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. ”
- Shirin Ebadi- Copy
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“ Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ”
- Jane Addams- Copy
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“ The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ The human race has improved everything, but the human race. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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