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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - David Hare

Weak Minds Sink Under Prosperity

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much. ― Robert McKee

Knowledge Quotes

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

― Henri-Frédéric Blanc

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

― J. M. Coetzee

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. — Arthur Compton

Strength Positive Quotes

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

― Erich Fromm

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.

― Kurt Vonnegut

Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

― Nikola Tesla

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

― Nikola Tesla

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

― Octavio Paz

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

― Octavio Paz

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

― Octavio Paz

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.

― Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

― Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

― Toni Morrison

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

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