#civilization

We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do? ↗

— Lee Child

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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Civilization can never be sustainable. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#never #sustainable

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. ↗

— Frank Knox

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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#do the right thing #fact #most #people #rests

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

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