#civilization

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. ↗

— David Hare

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You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#ability #civilization #cultivate #human #human relationships

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#based #civilization #continue #found #mankind

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. ↗

— James Norman Hall

#decays #suffers

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. ↗

— Robert Millikan

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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#advanced #because #been #beings #certainty

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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