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Quotations by Subject: Civilization (21 quotes)

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.: Jean Francois Revel
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.: Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908), 1905
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.: Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.: Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds, 1954
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What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important than what leads us-what convictions, what courage, what faith-win or lose. A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principal can.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Welcoming address before the Democratic national convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.: Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War
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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Letter to Dr. William Allan Nielson, January 9, 1940
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 6, 1788

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