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Letter "C" » Civilization
«Art is the signature of civilizations.»
«America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.»
Author: George Clemenceau
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization
| Keywords:
barbarism, degeneration, directly, interval, in history, miraculously, usual
«We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.»
Author: H. P Lovecraft
(Author)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Science
| Keywords:
Infinities, infinity, in the midst, island, live on, meant, midst, placid, seas, voyage
«All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war»
Author: Kenneth Clark
| About:
Civilization
«America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization
| Keywords:
America, barbarism, between, civilization, Civilization I, country, decadence, from, in-between, only, Only in America, The America, went
«All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| About:
Civilization,
Revolution
| Keywords:
crust, Crusts, from time to time, volcano, volcanoes
«As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Art,
Civilization
| Keywords:
beauty parlor, parlor, parlors
«A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.»
«All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Progress
| Keywords:
axe, criminal, laud, lauded, pathological, technological, technological progress, The Axe, the Hand
«As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Delusions, essentially, exclusiveness, fenced in, Fences, fence in, fencing, mocked, on the fence, property
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