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civilization people relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
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Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit. Raymond Loewy
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The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos. Victor Davis Hanson
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Revolution is the larva of civilization. Victor Hugo
civilization imagination quality
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one. Vernon Lee
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We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost. Vaclav Havel
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It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely. Tahar Ben Jelloun
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? Angela Carter
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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. Susan Sontag
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. Tacitus
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey