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Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.
- Dave Sim
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We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization.
- Sid Meier
#Civilization
Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.
- Sid Meier
#Civilization
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- Ludwig von Mises
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
- Nikki Giovanni
#Civilization
Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?
- Edwin Markham
#Civilization
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
- Zahi Hawass
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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
- Shirley Hazzard
#Civilization
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
- Jack Schwartz
#Civilization
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
#Civilization
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
- John Boyd Orr
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
- John Boyd Orr
#Civilization
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
- David Gemmell
#Civilization
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
- Theodor Reik
#Civilization
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
- Jack Keane
#Civilization
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
- Alva Myrdal
#Civilization
This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
- Joseph Rotblat
#Civilization
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
- Alan Rudolph
#Civilization
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
- Woody Hayes
#Civilization
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.
- John Lahr
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
- Max Lerner
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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
- Vine Deloria, Jr.
#Civilization
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
- Felix Adler
#Civilization
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
- John Reid
#Civilization
Human civilization as we know it is like the Titanic headed for the iceberg, whether the iceberg be nuclear, environmental or terrorism-related.
- Marianne Williamson
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There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Civilization
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
- Hideki Tojo
#Civilization
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
- George Pierce Baker
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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.
- Abraham Flexner
#Civilization
The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.
- Alva Myrdal
#Civilization
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
- Ralph Adams Cram
#Civilization
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
- Hans Jonas
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Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
- August Bebel
#Civilization
I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
- Tawakkol Karman
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau
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Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
- Muhammad Yunus
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- Agnes Repplier
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Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
- Dian Fossey
#Civilization
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
- Jacob K. Javits
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
- Patrick Stewart
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There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.
- Clive Davis
#Civilization
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
- Harriet Martineau
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When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
- Lytton Strachey
#Civilization
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
- Lytton Strachey
#Civilization
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
- Robert Shapiro
#Civilization
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
- Jamais Cascio
#Civilization
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
- George Crook
#Civilization
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
- Jason Epstein
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China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
- Michael Ledeen
#Civilization
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
- Henry George
#Civilization
I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.
- Charles Grodin
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Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
- Charles Krauthammer
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Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
- Nina Fedoroff
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
- Orson Scott Card
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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
- Whittaker Chambers
#Civilization
Seoul promises to make a big investment in the transition of ecology and civilization that will transform the green crisis into a green opportunity.
- Park Won-soon
#Civilization
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
- Jerry Springer
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To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.
- John R. Allen
#Civilization
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
- David Brin
#Civilization
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
- Orson F. Whitney
#Civilization
The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
- Isabella Bird
#Civilization
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
#Civilization
You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
- Daphne Guinness
#Civilization
The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
- Aly Khan
#Civilization
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
- David Hare
#Civilization
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
- Chauncey Wright
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
- William Irwin Thompson
#Civilization
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
- Derek Jacobi
#Civilization
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
- Gary Shteyngart
#Civilization
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
- L. Neil Smith
#Civilization
Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
- Richard Harding Davis
#Civilization
No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.
- Vaclav Smil
#Civilization
The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.
- Glenn Greenwald
#Civilization
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
- Jose Rizal
#Civilization
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
- Joel Salatin
#Civilization
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
- Geoffrey West
#Civilization
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
- Chen Guangcheng
#Civilization
For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'
- Michael Shellenberger
#Civilization
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
- Fannie Farmer
#Civilization
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
- Pete Hegseth
#Civilization
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
- Margaret Mitchell
#Civilization
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
- Hayao Miyazaki
#Civilization
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
- Serj Tankian
#Civilization
Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of such energy became apparent.
- Tulsi Tanti
#Civilization
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
- Eduardo Paes
#Civilization
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.
- James Henry Breasted
#Civilization
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history.
- James Henry Breasted
#Civilization
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling the Earth until the sun turns into a red giant about 5 billion years from now.
- Trevor Paglen
#Civilization
No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.
- Amitava Kumar
#Civilization
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
- Al Gore
#Civilization
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
- Samuel P. Huntington
#Civilization
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.
- Gutzon Borglum
#Civilization
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
- Martin Van Buren
#Civilization
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
- Robert Andrews Millikan
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead
#Civilization
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
- James Henry Breasted
#Civilization
Partners from the Islamic world are of particular importance. Indeed, they have huge incentives to be involved, as the ongoing struggles are generally not clashes between civilizations. Rather, what we are seeing is more accurately a clash within a civilization: that of the Islamic world.
- David Petraeus
#Civilization
No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.
- Nelson A. Miles
#Civilization
That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.
- Edward Albee
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