#civilization

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that. ↗

— Alf Landon

#awake #civilization #complex #got #growing

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#civilization #less #top #unbearable

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#civilization #despotism #each #economic #equal

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #discovery #fire #greatest #human

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#freedom #lies #real #real freedom #wildness

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#condition #half #none #other #over