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54 quotesCivilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.
Civilization
Charles L. Lucas
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
Religion
Joseph De Maistre
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
Women
George Meredith
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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Crime and Criminals
Owen Meredith
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Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Civilization
Malcolm Muggeridge
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
Civilization
George Orwell
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
Women
Camille Paglia
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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Children
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Civility costs nothing.
Manners
Proverb
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
Absurdity
Agnes Repplier
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Civilization
John Ruskin
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
Civilization
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
Simplicity
Jessie Sampter
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
Idols
George Bernard Shaw
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
Arts and Artists
Beverly Sills
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Society
Rabindranath Tagore
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Curiosity
G. M. Trevelyan
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Civilization
Mark Twain
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A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.
Society
Source Unknown
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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
Change
Source Unknown
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The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.
Civilization
C. J. Weber
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Work
Simone Weil
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun