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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Technology
Science
Science And Technology
Depend
Civilization
Crucial
Most
Arranged
Which
Elements
Profoundly
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
Other
Follow
Civilization
Tillage
Begins
Human
Arts
Human Civilization
Farmers
Therefore
Founders
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen Keller
Youth
World
Will
Backwards
Possible
Civilization
Advance
Headstrong
May
While
Length
Flow
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
Wealth
Power
Every
Destroyed
Has-Been
Distribution
Civilization
Tendency
Previous
Been
Unequal
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller
Peace
Earth
Would
Civilization
Know
End
Mean
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.
Robert Kennedy
Together
Law
Men
Live
Chaos
Prohibited
Rules
We Cannot
Out
Tell
Civilization
Wrong
Know
Without
Enables
Glue
Permitted
Order
Cannot
Holds
Which
Us
Creates
Right
One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Strength
Family
Peace
Unity
Civilization
Purposes
Primary
Family Life
Order
Certainly
Flourish
Guarantee
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
Sam Harris
People
World
Half
Build
Nihilism
Civilization
Absolutely
Provides
End
Anticipating
End Of The World
Fringe
American
Sustainable
Incentive
Many
Population
Eagerly
Nearly
Lunatic
Lunatics
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Liberty
Gift
Before
Civilization
Individual
Greatest
Any
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell
Battle
Win
Down
Wimps
Civilization
Versus
Going
Barbarians
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
War
You
Every
Way
Say
Civilization
Advance
New
New Way
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good
Women
Thought
Civilization
Influence
Measure
Sufficient
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
War
Civilization
Well
Western
Western Civilization
Forever
May
Bury
Next
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
History
Nation
Gone
Interval
Degeneration
Miraculously
Only
Directly
Civilization
Without
America
Which
Barbarism
Usual
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein
Time
Dark
Long
Long Time
Few
Lasted
Everybody
Back
Dark Ages
Civilization
Take
Does
Very
Very Long Time
Granddaughter
Grandfathers
Us
Ages
Really
Thinks
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
Jacques Ellul
Technology
Become
Defining
Total
Civilization
Longer
New
Force
Imposed
Efficiency
Option
Modern
Human
Human Activity
Order
Modern Technology
Which
Social
Social Order
Activity
Necessity
Phenomenon
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
Louis D. Brandeis
Happiness
Life
Democracy
Liberty
Opportunity
Will
Men
Entitled
Conviction
Other
Civilization
Rests
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Advance
Most
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Principle
Equally
Pillars
Two
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck
Worth
Christian
Other
Possessing
Seeking
Civilization
Than
Which
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
Pat Buchanan
Faith
Culture
Civilization
Begins
Die
Goes
Dies
Then
Produced
Population
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
Religion
Rights
Human Rights
Every
Component
Civilization
Human
Standard
Universal
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
Steven Wright
God
Down
Think
Speeding
Civilization
Over
Come
Going
Pull
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan
Respect
Rights
Will
Own
Others
Anglo-Saxon
Civilization
Individual
Protect
Him
His
American
Taught
Teach
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
Democracy
Prison
Nothing
Abhorrent
Unpopular
More
Civilization
He
Him
Because
Test
Than
Person
Really
Keep
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Alexander Herzen
Better
First
Others
Worse
Those
Some
Civilization
Better Off
Develop
Step
Towards
First Step
Off
Expense
Order
Then
Much
Should
Who
Things
Necessary
Slavery
Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
Charles Krauthammer
Rise Above
Single
Every
Appropriation
Distinguishes
Rise
Above
Civilization
Civilizations
Sins
Who
Founded
Violence
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng
Society
Civilization
Disabled
True
True Measure
How
Measure
Treats
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