#civilization

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ↗

— John Muir

#destroyed #generally #gross #nature #poetry

Il ne s'agit point de t'offusquer de ce que l'un diffère de l'autre, de ce que les aspirations de l'un s'opposent aux aspirations de l'autre, de ce que le langage de l'un ne soit point le langage de l'autre, il s'agît de t'en réjouir. Car si te voilà créateur tu batiras un temple de portée plus haute qui sera leur commune mesure. Mais je dis aveugle celui-là qui s'imagine créer s'il démonte la cathédrale et aligne dans l'ordre par rang de taille les pierres l'une après l'autre. (chapitre LXXV) ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#society #imagination

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. ↗

— Theodor Reik

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The slum is the measure of civilization. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#measure #slum

Art is the signature of civilizations. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#civilizations #signature

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. ↗

— A.A. Gill

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