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Civilization
«It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read»
«It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it»
Author: Ronald Knox
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Culture,
Devil
| Keywords:
explanation
«It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Progress,
Technology
| Keywords:
appallingly, become, exceeded, has, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, obvious, technologies, technology, that
«Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
cultivation, farmers, founders, The Founders, tillage
«I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
War
| Keywords:
fought, get stuck, III, known, sticks, stick in, stick on, stick out, stick up, stones, the sticks, war, weapons, world war, World War I
«I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic bomb, bomb, fought, out in, The atomic bomb, thirds, two-thirds, wiped, wiped out, wipe out
«It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.»
«It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.»
«Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Grace
| Keywords:
derived, divine grace, smiled, Voltaire, wept