“ What do I think of Western Civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. ” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“ No civilised society of today presents more survivals of primitive times than does the Indian society. Its religion is essentially primitive and its tribal code, in spite of the advance of time and Civilization, operates in all its pristine vigor even today. Indian society still savors of the clan system, even though there are no clans. ” ~ Bhim Rao Ambedkar
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“ NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of Civilization. ” ~ Ambrose Bierce
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“ Upon the sacredness of property Civilization itself depends - the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions ” ~ Andrew Carnegie
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“ Perhaps Civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of Civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive... An art, a whole Civilization, may at any time slip through men's fingers in a very few years and be gone beyond recovery. If we are alive when such a thing is happening we shall hardly notice it until too late; and it is most unlikely that we shall know its causes. ” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“ Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present Civilization. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ Peace is the virtue of Civilization. War is its crime. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ The quantity of Civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated Civilization is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve Civilization. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ We say that slavery has vanished from European Civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ” ~ Victor Hugo
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“ Woman knows what man has long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any Civilization is still the family. ” ~ Clare Boothe Luce
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“ We will never be an advanced Civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket ” ~ George Carlin
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“ It is not possible for Civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. ” ~ Helen Keller
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“ The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of Civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. ” ~ Henry Ford
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“ It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. ” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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“ I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ” ~ Jack London
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“ Every advance in Civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. ” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of Civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“ To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent Civilization. ” ~ Bertrand Russell
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