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• Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  Ida B. Wells

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emergency, Civilization, Longer

• I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

  Ian Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, Language, Civilization

• Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

  Brian Aldiss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization, Man

• From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

  Friedrich Engels

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spirit, Civilization

• Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

  Freeman Dyson

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Greatest, Civilization

• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Topics in Fear, Society

  Tags in Civilization

• In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

  Paul Harris

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Civilization

• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

  Frank Knox

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Civilization

• I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization

• It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else… begin to march us steadily backward.

  Patrick Stewart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Backward, Civilization

• Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization, Familiar

• To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.

  Frances Perkins

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Believe, Civilization

• All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

  Gerald Durrell

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Civilization

• A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Civilization

• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization

• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  Flora Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Civilization

• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

  Georges Bernanos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization, Precise

• Seriously, ‘Honey Boo Boo’ is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn’t mean it’s good.

  Adam Levine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civilization, Decay

• Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Iraq, Civilization

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  Fannie Farmer

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Civilization