1,222 Quotes About Civilization


  • Author Ian Smith
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    I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

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  • Author Joel Salatin
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    You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

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  • Author John Ralston Saul
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    A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

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  • Author Kathleen Sebelius
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    As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.

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  • Author L. Neil Smith
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    Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

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  • Author Lytton Strachey
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    When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

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  • Author Marjane Satrapi
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    Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

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