#civilization

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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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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