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Civilization
«Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization»
Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
| About:
Civilization
«For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Politeness
| Keywords:
politeness, qua, sine, sine qua non
«Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization,
Nature
| Keywords:
advance, civilization, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, most recent, recent, unnatural
«Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
Augean, cleaner, cleaners, filth, metallic, savage, sordidness, stable, stupendous
«Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people?s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human 'brain' with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human 'heart' with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Civilization,
Compassion,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
civilizations, day care, filling, great care, human brain, Human heart, importance, role, spread, These Days, Western, westerns, with compassion, with great care
«Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
devoured, marrow, wildness
«Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
administrations, consummation, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, world organization
«Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Generations
| Keywords:
barbarians, invasion, The Barbarians
«Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Civilization,
Doing Your Best,
Mankind,
Peace
| Keywords:
atavistic, barbaric, civilization, constabulary, defend, forces, freedom of the will, kept, large, majority, mankind, Peace and Freedom, possessed, survive, unite