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No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
Christopher McCandless
Alone
Freedom
Phone
Become
Lost
Walks
Pool
Cigarettes
Wild
Civilization
Poisoned
He
Longer
Ultimate
Land
Pets
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.
Daniel Webster
Man
Gardening
Will
Important
Other
Earth
Follow
Civilization
Most
Tillage
Cultivation
Labor
Begins
Forget
Arts
The Most Important
Us
Farmers
Therefore
Let Us
Founders
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good
Think
Would
Would-Be
Civilization
Idea
Western
Western Civilization
Very
Good Idea
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck
People
Fear
Old
Young
Society
Cares
Our
Way
Members
Possible
Must
Civilization
Make
Test
Them
Old People
Helpless
Deserted
Right
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams
Attitude
Respect
Men
Living
Civilization
Equal
Method
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir
Nature
Spiritual
Destroyed
Civilization
Poetry
Generally
Gross
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Bill Cosby
Best
Me
Too
Rules
Civilization
Had
Did
Rewrite
Them
Many
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Gene Roddenberry
Strength
Fight
Ability
Rather
Prevent
Civilization
Them
Measured
Wars
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S Truman
Future
Faith
Great
Glorious
Nation
Before
Believe
Our
Embodiment
Civilization
Had
Ideals
Another
Israel
Sovereign
Sovereign Nation
Just
Established
Now
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis
Time
Become
Revolution
Civilization
Volcano
Over
Crust
From Time To Time
Thin
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art
Soul
Architecture
Mother
Own
Our
Civilization
Without
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens
Art
Border
Civilization
Along
Like
Course
Flowers
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
You
Culture
Values
Give
Civilization
Period
Dead
Principles
Up
Your
Moment
Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.
Ronald Reagan
Today
Oppression
East
Civilization
Poland
Doing
West
Being
Center
European
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Sigmund Freud
Justice
First
Civilization
Requisite
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Knowledge
Man
Somewhere
Difficult
Heritage
Distance
Logic
Slowly
Civilization
Lead
Open
Since
Course
His
Up
Times
Accumulate
Paths
Justify
Justifying
Centuries
Customs
Themselves
Beliefs
Elements
Inner
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
Bill Kristol
Patriotism
Defense
Weapon
Civilization
Indispensable
Against
Barbarism
It's never a question of skin pigmentation. It's never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It's what kind of human being you're going to choose to be from your mama's womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave.
Cornel West
You
Culture
Human Being
Will
Skin
Kind
Sexual
Civilization
Never
Leave
Question
Womb
Mama
Legacy
Going
Human
Just
Being
Your
Choose
Orientation
Tomb
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
Eduardo Galeano
God
Progress
Made
Some
Civilization
Sacred
Almost
Almost All
Name
Perhaps
Trade
Always
Material
Been
Disguised
Interest
Them
Wars
Connected
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
Food
Law
Top
Enter
Food Chain
Civilization
Beyond
Said
Always
Ends
Sea
Chain
Right
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
John Henrik Clarke
Long
Become
Before
Birth
Gave
Later
Would
Civilization
Known
Western
Western Civilization
Greatness
Greece
Egypt
Rome
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog
Darkness
Ocean
Chaos
Civilization
Layer
Like
Ice
Deep
Thin
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
Change
Civilization
Without
Geological
Subject
Exists
Notice
Consent
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.
Albert Einstein
War
Future
People
Will
Believe
Earth
Out
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Civilization
Wiped
Perhaps
Fought
Bomb
Two-Thirds
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce
Government
Intelligence
Cares
Our
Honored
Civilization
Highly
Exemption
Office
Rewarded
Form
Republican
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill
Art
Best
Man
Clouds
Dark
Cruelty
Beauty
Heroic
Ways
Best Part
Silver
Civilization
Vast
Part
Around
Courtesy
Refinement
Lining
Gallery
Many
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