#civilization

There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral. ↗

— David Oyelowo

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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. ↗

— Will Rogers

#learned #never #others #recognize #rights

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. ↗

— Will Rogers

#advance #civilization #every #kill #new

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#fine #morocco #place #spoiled #very

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds? ↗

— Elizabeth Coatsworth

#beauty #civilization #woman #art

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destroys #may #nuclear #nuclear weapons #ones

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult