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~ Civilization Quotes ~
« on: June 11, 2016, 09:50:27 PM »
Civilization Quotes


Famous Civilization quotes by popular authors such as Arnold J. Toynbee, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elbert Hubbard, Alfred North Whitehead, Jose Ortega y Gasset and others.




[highlight-text]Speech is civilization itself.

Thomas Mann
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« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2016, 09:59:59 PM »
[highlight-text]There is such a thing as too much couth.

S. J. Perelman
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« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2016, 10:02:28 PM »
[highlight-text]The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Elbert Hubbard
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« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2016, 10:07:58 PM »
[highlight-text]Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Harvey Allen
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« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2016, 10:09:42 PM »
[highlight-text]If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.

Victor Hugo
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« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2016, 10:11:28 PM »
[highlight-text]Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Elbert Hubbard
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« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2016, 10:13:14 PM »
[highlight-text]Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Charles L. Lucas
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2016, 10:14:12 PM »
[highlight-text]The human race has improved everything except the human race.

Adlai E. Stevenson
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2016, 10:15:51 PM »
[highlight-text]This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Eliot
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2016, 10:16:56 PM »
[highlight-text]Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

George Santayana
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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2016, 10:20:17 PM »
[highlight-text]Nations like individuals live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Giuseppe Mazzini
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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2016, 10:23:48 PM »
[highlight-text]A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2016, 10:24:57 PM »
[highlight-text]Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke
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« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2016, 10:25:47 PM »
[highlight-text]Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.

Arnold J. Toynbee
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« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2016, 10:29:22 PM »
[highlight-text]Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold J. Toynbee
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