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«Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.»
Author: Abraham Flexner
| About:
Civilization,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
billions, borrow, borrowed, borrows, choice, civilization, Civilization I, largely, LED, nation, nations, pay, pay for, recently, rich
«Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
appeared, collapsed, collapses, in history, nineteen, reached, twenty-two
«New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.»
«On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.»
«Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
destroyers, Freud, gospel, Marx, replacing, undermining
«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
«No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.»
«My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, cruelties, hypocrisies, shoddy, vanities
«Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
emotional, everyday life, fund, funding, mostly, moved, occupied, outlet, outlets, preservation, seeks, self preservation, surplus, surpluses, The Creation
«No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
distinction, drawn, purse, stealing
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