1,222 Quotes About Civilization
- Author A.Z. Banda
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Those are the spirits of the reptoids. All their dreams are dissipating. A million years of culture, civilization, and history are vanishing.
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- Author Michelle Huneven
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You know, I always think about going back to college. Just to catch up on all those books that supposedly shape our lives but nobody ever reads.”“Yeah? Like what?”. . . “Well, there’s the Bible. You ever read it?”“Parts,” said Lewis.“Well, this whole wrecked civilization is based on a book most people have only read parts of.
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- Author Maya Jasanoff
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Anyone could be savage. Everywhere could go dark
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- Author Enock Maregesi
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Utaratibu ni ustaarabu na ustaarabu ni utaratibu.
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- Author Rudyard Kipling
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Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.
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- Author Danny Hilman Natawidjaja
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Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a man-made pyramid and the origins of construction here go back long before the end of the last Ice Age. Since the work is massive even at the deepest levels, and bears witness to the kinds of sophisticated construction skills that were deployed to build the pyramids of Egypt, or the largest megalithic sites of Europe, I can only conclude that we're looking at the work of a lost civilization and a fairly advanced one.
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- Author Salman Rushdie
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Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.
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- Author Hesham Nebr
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Thinking the simplest rights of Civilization to The Humanitarian !
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