#civilization

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

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All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life. ↗

— Aly Khan

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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

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