#civilization

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. ↗

— James Lovelock

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization. ↗

— John Milius

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A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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