#civilization

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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The test of civilization is its estimate of women. ↗

— George William Curtis

#civilization #estimate #test

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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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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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

#after #arts #civilizations #gift #gifts

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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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#begins #civilization #farmers #follow #founders

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

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