#civilization

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

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Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#failsafe #life #performance #religion #science

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#me #non #politeness #sine

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. ↗

— Ann Druyan

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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The family is the nucleus of civilization. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #nucleus

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

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