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civilization leisure
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization america elements
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization white skins
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. Helen Suzman
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes
civilization people cornerstones
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. John Malkovich
civilization mind
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. John Lothrop Motley