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Quotations by Subject: Civilization (21 quotes)

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Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?: Howard Zinn
When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.: David Brower
I think it would be a good idea.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (Attributed)
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
What a time! What a civilization!: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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