Civilization quotes

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◆ The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
- Albert Camus100
◆ Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.
- George Will100
◆ It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it
- Ronald Knox99
◆ No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mahatma Gandhi99
◆ Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos
- Will Durant99
◆ Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland99
◆ Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation
- James Madison99
◆ We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
- H P Lovecraft99
◆ Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility
- Malcolm Muggeridge99
◆ Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will
- Winston Churchill99
◆ Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind
- Tennessee Williams99
◆ Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into peoples hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
- Dalai Lama99
◆ Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Will Durant99
◆ A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.
- Ayn Rand99
◆ In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.
- Washington Irving99

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