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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization.
Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.
I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct.
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.
A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.