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civilization
«Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.»
Author: Abraham Flexner
| About:
Civilization,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
billions, borrow, borrowed, borrows, choice, civilization, Civilization I, largely, LED, nation, nations, pay, pay for, recently, rich
«If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.»
Author: Ludwig von Mises
| Keywords:
civilization, inextricably, linked, private, private property, property
«In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.»
«It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
civilization, common, common denominator, course, denominator, denominators, mankind, of course, powerful, priests, remains, so-called, Thousands
«Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| About:
Commitment,
Team work
| Keywords:
civilization, commitment, company, group, team
«Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization,
Nature
| Keywords:
advance, civilization, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, most recent, recent, unnatural
«Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, privacy, ruled, rule of law, savage, savaged, setting, set free, Society of, The Process, The Rule of Law, tribe
«My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, cruelties, hypocrisies, shoddy, vanities
«I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, come down, down, going, go down on, over, pull, pulling out, pull down, pull in, pull over, pull through, pull up, sped, speeded, speeded up, speeding, speeds, speed up
«Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Civilization,
Doing Your Best,
Mankind,
Peace
| Keywords:
atavistic, barbaric, civilization, constabulary, defend, forces, freedom of the will, kept, large, majority, mankind, Peace and Freedom, possessed, survive, unite