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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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Havelock Ellis
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Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge books
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Civilization depends on morality.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Mark Twain
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee books
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Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
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Charles L. Lucas
Charles L. Lucas books
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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Thomas B. Aldrich
Thomas B. Aldrich books
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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John Ruskin
John Ruskin books
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
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Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee books
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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
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Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen books
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61 votes
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
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The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.
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C. J. Weber
C. J. Weber books
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard books
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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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George William Curtis
George William Curtis books
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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David Hare
David Hare books
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48 votes
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
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George Orwell
George Orwell books
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee books
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
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Eric Berne
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Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
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Woody Hayes
Woody Hayes books
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