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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
George William Curtis
Women
Civilization
Test
Estimate
If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.
James Carville
Government
Gay
You
People
Better
Path
Rich
Believe
Our
Our Choice
Signals
Obamacare
Guns
Civilization
Never
Sin
Coming
End
America
Any
Going
Being
Want
Taxes
Rich People
Cutting
Choice
Your
That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.
Jeff Fortenberry
Freedom
You
Rights
Dignity
Space
Build
Lose
Religious
Religious Freedom
Civilization
Fact
Sacred
Terms
Principle
Exercise
Itself
Human
Where
In Fact
Which
Human Dignity
Your
Reasonable
Beliefs
Fundamental
Fundamental Principle
Conscience
Basis
Core
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
Jordan Peterson
Tyranny
Big
Hell
Think
Starvation
Out
Civilization
Beats
Big Fan
Western
Western Civilization
Fan
Happen
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
Jose Rizal
People
Thrive
Every
Embraces
Civilization
Contact
Filipino
Lives
The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
Narendra Modi
Diversity
Beauty
Our
Extremely
India
Something
Civilization
Proud
Which
Actually
Thing
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.
Ray Kurzweil
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Will
Our
Say
Further
Machine
Out
Follow
Civilization
Reach
Around
Artificial
Human
Biological
Levels
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud
Impossible
Civilization
Instinct
Built
Renunciation
Overlook
Which
Extent
Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
Victor Hugo
Freedom
Family
Liberty
Every
Nutrition
Press
Diminution
See
Followed
Civilization
Human
Wherever
Human Family
Interfered
Interrupted
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
Technology
Important
Thinking
Civilization
Advances
Perform
Operations
Without
Which
Them
Extending
Number
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
History
Civilization
Voyage
Condition
Movement
Harbor
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
Bill Nye
Game
Space
Asteroid
Earth
Civilization
Over
Hit
Gets
A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.
Charles Marion Russell
Destroys
Civilization
Calls
Pioneer
Things
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
Dian Fossey
Nature
Me
Back
Civilization
Almost
Altruistic
Always
Very
Get
Any
Little
Appalled
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
Love
Tolerance
Dramatic
We Cannot
Something
Only
Civilization
Only Love
Fact
Emotional
Namely
Know
Affairs
Cannot
Public
Public Affairs
Personally
Much
Less
Rebuilding
Needed
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emil Cioran
Destroyed
Only
Civilization
Gods
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Fannie Farmer
Progress
Has-Been
Civilization
Accompanied
Been
Cookery
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell
War
Walk
Doubt
Ruined
Cities
About
Civilization
Through
Feel
Continuity
Germany
Actual
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Hanna Rosin
Rights
Son
Long
Few
Has-Been
Civilization
Through
Exceptions
Principle
Been
Existed
Patriarchy
Enforced
Organizing
Nearly
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Harriet Martineau
Power
Half
Society
Other
Civilization
Over
Sure
Sought
None
Test
Condition
Which
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer
Progress
Indefinite
Definite
Civilization
Toward
Incoherent
Homogeneity
Coherent
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Jerry Springer
Gum
Civilization
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Western
Western Civilization
End
Just
Show
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
Joel Salatin
Food
You
People
Soil
Healthy
Civilization
Without
Healthy People
Junk
Junk Food
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
Jordan Peterson
Value
Free
Free Speech
Civilization
Another
Western
Western Civilization
Just
Foundation
Speech
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?
Jose Rizal
Fitness
Man
Rights
Citizen
Pay
Fatherland
Must
Be A Man
Some
More
More Or Less
Civilization
No-One
He
Arises
Merely
Since
Shed
Him
His
Denied
Question
Fit
Blood
Ceases
Being
Regarded
Taxes
Asked
Less
Filipino
Why
Right
Defend
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
Life
Good
Property
Justice
Respect
Equality
Law
Word
Before
Crimes
Punishment
Citizens
Civilization
Principles
Built
Ultimate
Human
Against
Persons
Human Life
Good Citizens
Number
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