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Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
In order for the students' development and the outer development of civilization to coincide, we need a faculty whose interest is not limited to specialized educational practices. Rather, this faculty must be fully involved in the broader aspects of life.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
We are reminded repeatedly, often by older men, that western civilization has died on the altar of social media.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
I used to play a lot of 'Civilization Revolution.' It's a strategy game that takes six to eight hours. You literally have to block off a full Sunday.
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do?
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a fairly passionate defender of it.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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