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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.

  Cyril Connolly

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  Tags in People, Civilization, Small

• Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  George Orwell

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  Tags in Salvage, Mankind, Civilization

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Men, Civilization, World

• George Bush doesn’t represent any civilization!

  George Galloway

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• Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man’s command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

  Cordell Hull

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Science, Civilization

• By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

  Solomon Schechter

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• We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

  George Crook

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  Tags in Indian, Civilization, Force

• I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

  George Catlin

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  Tags in Civilization, Approach

• But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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  Tags in Civilization, Culture

• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

  Simone Weil

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  Tags in Civilization, Lies

• A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

  Sigmund Freud

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• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Time, Civilization

• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Civilization

• The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Civilization

• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

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  Tags in Liberty, Civilization

• We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

  Sigmund Freud

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• You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

  Shimon Peres

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• Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

  Thomas Mellon

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  Tags in Violence, Civilization

• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Continue, Civilization