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Quotations by Subject: Civilization (21 quotes)

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Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), Civilization and Ethics, Preface
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974`
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.: Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959), Universities, part 3, 1930
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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
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Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Fountainhead (1943)

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