#civilization

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

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It's very difficult to marry into another civilization. ↗

— Leslie Caron

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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

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Education is the transmission of civilization. ↗

— Ariel Durant

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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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