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The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization (Civilization Quotes)
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it (Civilization Quotes)
The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it (Civilization Quotes)
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation (Civilization Quotes)
Economics is important because it’s possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization (Civilization Quotes)
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization (Civilization Quotes)
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon (Civilization Quotes)
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism (Civilization Quotes)
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy (Civilization Quotes)
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean (Civilization Quotes)
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women’s work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization (Civilization Quotes)
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost (Civilization Quotes)
The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens (Civilization Quotes)
A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment (Civilization Quotes)
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization (Civilization Quotes)
We came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life (Civilization Quotes)
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework (Civilization Quotes)
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate (Civilization Quotes)
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day (Civilization Quotes)
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization (Civilization Quotes)
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature (Civilization Quotes)
Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk (Civilization Quotes)
In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings (Civilization Quotes)
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet (Civilization Quotes)
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people (Civilization Quotes)
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it (Civilization Quotes)
War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with.... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization (Civilization Quotes)
Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again (Civilization Quotes)
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car (Civilization Quotes)
How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well (Civilization Quotes)