Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so
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When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: The situation is normal.
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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
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All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war
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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
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Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec
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The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey!
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
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When a civilization takes up the study of itself, it is always high noon.
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The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -
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Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
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We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket
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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.
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
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The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform.. Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.
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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
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Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into peoples hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself
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