Quotes about civilization
civilization birth-control modern
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals. Marie Stopes
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Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else. Theodore Roethke
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Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny. Theodore Roosevelt
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. Theodore Dreiser
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Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents Margaret Sanger
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As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
civilization people wreckage
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. Margaret Mitchell
civilization people brain
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
civilization ideas woven
Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions. Margaret Mead
civilization answers vex
I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?
civilization race humanity
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization. Marcus Garvey
civilization poison drink
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.
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Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times. Arthur Keith
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities Mark Twain
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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
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the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.
civilization fists founder instead language man
...the first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.
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The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while. Gregory Benford
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...the first sign of civilization is always trash. Neal Shusterman
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Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. Lance Morrow
civilization self tradition
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest. John Ralston Saul
civilization democracy needs
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws. James Joyce
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Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed. James Hansen
civilization coal climate-change
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
civilization world earth
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.
civilization differences political
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant. Friedrich August von Hayek
civilization growth important
It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.
civilization ignorant acquisition
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.
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The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. George Bancroft
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. Charles Darwin