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54 quotesCivilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Civilization
Thomas B. Aldrich
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Civilization
Eric Berne
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Civilization
Thomas Carlyle
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Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
Respectability
Chinese Proverb
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
God
E. M. Cioran
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Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Profits
Calvin Coolidge
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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
Civilization
George William Curtis
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Civilization
Benjamin Disraeli
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
Extremes and Extremists
John Dryden
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Haste
William J. Durant
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Family
William J. Durant
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Civilization
Havelock Ellis
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Civilization depends on morality.
Civilization
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
Civilization
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Humankind
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
IQ Test
Stanley Garn
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Force
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
Civilization
David Hare
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
Civilization
Woody Hayes
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A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
Guests
George Herheri
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Doubt
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Perfection
Karen Horney
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Civilization
Elbert Hubbard
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Welfare
Samuel Johnson
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Humanism
Walter Lippmann
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun