#civilization

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. ↗

— Abdus Salam

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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum. ↗

— Jerry Springer

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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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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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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. ↗

— Randall Terry

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