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«The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.»
Author: John Muir
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
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«The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
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«There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Character,
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, valuable
«Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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«The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.»
«To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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accepting, as it is, civilization, decay, decayed, decaying, decays, practically
«Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization,
Newspapers
| Keywords:
accident, bicycle, Bicycles, civilization, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, newspapers, seemingly, unable
«The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, eventually, human race, race
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
by size, census, cities, civilization, Civilization I, country, cropped, crops, kind of, Of Man, size, sized, sizes, size up, sizing, test, the country, the true, turns
«The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, claims, every other, The Claim, the true
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