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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNE

Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
JOHN F. KENNEDY

Civilization Decision Ending Insane Men Opposite World
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN

Aggression Civilization Man Method Peace Violence
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
VLADIMIR PUTIN

Civilization Force Language Path Politics
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
ABDU'L-BAHA

Age Ageless Civilization Element Feminine Masculine New
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
ROBERT GRAVES

Civilization Culture Follow Independent Long Obey Respect Said Tradition World
I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.
ADAM FERRARA

Arrogance Civilization Demise Human Thinking
The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.
VINCENT VAN GOGH

Civilization Disease Labor Melancholy
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI

Civilization Ending Lifetime Wonderful
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
IRIS MURDOCH

Civilization Growth Heart Man Transportation
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI

Art Civilization Life Memories Myself Past Replacement Rise Space Work
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
RACHEL CARSON

Civilization Destroy Life Lose Right War
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
ANNIE BESANT

Civilization Development Evolution Intelligence Man Mental Place Simplicity
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
EARL WARREN

Civilization Ethics Law Moral Sea
I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.
HAYAO MIYAZAKI

Civilization Creature Desire Essence Human Limitation Live Rich
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
RUDYARD KIPLING

Civilization Country Herself Old
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
ROBERT GRAVES

Civilization Help Independent Poet Scholar Specialization Thinking
Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of fire arms may find that information and skill of great importance.
ANNIE OAKLEY

Best Civilization Country Greatness Importance Knowledge Peace Skills Woman
In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
RAND PAUL

Abuse Civilization Freedom People Society
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
ALVIN TOFFLER

Civilization Men Trying
When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

Civilization Destruction Expectation Fall See Style Work
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU

All Animal Civilization Farm Farmer Herd Hunt Instead Must Plant replace Sea Use
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
ALAN BENNETT

Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Civilization Education Life Money

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