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It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community.
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.
If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
When a civilization, a race, a people, a society, when they lack love, they are soon destroyed.
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.