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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Civilization Impossible Intellectual Moral State
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Civilization Evil Force Men State Worship
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
DAVID BOWIE

Choice Civilization Creation Style Yourself
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
AHDAF SOUEIF

Centuries Children Civilization Dream Dreaming Mother
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
RAND PAUL

Civilization Myself Practice Right Stop Support
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Catchword Civilization Continue Help Inciting Mass Socialism Sound Taken Work Year
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Billion Blowing Civilization Kick Mind People Shoulder Six Stand Themselves
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Civilization Problem Study
Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Although Bring Civilization Discovery Lesson Profound Progressive Reach Survival War
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
MARGARET MEAD

Civilization Life People Realize Way
Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we’ll use the moment it comes close enough.
ANONYMOUS

Civilization Forget Moments Ourselves Pretend Primary
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
WILLIAM FEATHER

Civilization Found Happiness Indictment Intelligence Once Person Rarely Same
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization.
PRIMO LEVI

Bear Civilization Even One Ourselves Place Skeleton Story Survive Tell Therefore Want Witness
A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.
ADLAI STEVENSON I

Century Civilization Man Party Save
Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
MAO ZEDONG

Civilization History Such Thousands Year
Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
RICHARD BACH

Civilization Planet Seafloor Stratosphere Wreck
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIER

Absurdity Civilization Palpable People Way
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
SAM HARRIS

Argument Civilization Production Representation Tradition
It was very relaxing to be away from civilization, and this bothered me. I should not have found the loneliness so welcoming.
STEPHENIE MEYER

Civilization Lonely Myself Relax Welcome
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Civilization Create Imagination Names Political Power
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURST

Beat Began Civilization Country End Heart Western
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
BILL BONNER

Civilization Consumer Done Needs
Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Altogether Civilization Cruelty Energy Man Simply Vice Virtue
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
BARBARA TUCHMAN

Book Civilization Literature History

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