• Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the ''dragon,'' in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid s

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 123 reads

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• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 182 reads

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• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 137 reads

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• One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 116 reads

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• Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 195 reads

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• The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 14 votes · 117 reads

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 184 reads

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• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 35 reads

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• The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosc

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 127 reads

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• To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 107 reads

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