#civilization

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. ↗

— James Norman Hall

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Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. ↗

— Robert Millikan

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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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By the time of the arrival of Islam in the early seventeenth century CE, what we now call the Middle East was divided between the Persian and Byzantine empires. But with the spread of this new religion from Arabia, a powerful empire emerged, and with it a flourishing civilization and a glorious golden age. Given how far back it stretches in time, the history of the region -- and even of Iraq itself -- is too big a canvas for me to paint. Instead, what I hope to do in this book is take on the nonetheless ambitious task of sharing with you a remarkable story; one of an age in which great geniuses pushed the frontiers of knowledge to such an extent that their work shaped civilizations to this day. ↗

— Jim Al-Khalili

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Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. ↗

— Jane Addams

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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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