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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his...

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Quote by Edward Abbey about police, civilization, youth, culture

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to...

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Quote by Richard Bach about civilization

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about civilization

Civilization is the distance man has placed between...

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Quote by Brian Aldiss about civilization, man

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted...

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Quote by Herodotus about war, peace

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual...

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about sex, instinct, love, people

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet...

Quote by Richard Bach about evolution, civilization, intelligence, gifts, love

It is only through books that we partake of the great...

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about civilization, books, human imperfections

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about limits, civilization

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about joy, civilization, air

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds...

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about civilization, history

By the same token it must follow that the state we now call a small state is in reality a power if it plays such a role in the development of civilization that it marches in the front ranks and wins victories in the fight for law which surpass...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about state, evolution, civilization, fight, reality, law, power

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is...

Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

Quote by George W. Bush about chaos, fear, civilization

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.

Quote by Orson Scott about civilization

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention, capitalism, civilization, being, people

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has...

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention, capitalism, civilization

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, suffering, war, human imperfections, world

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, danger, nation, peace, war, people

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, essential, world

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, civilization, history, world

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