#civilization

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

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No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. ↗

— Anne Rice

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