Civilizations Quotes (page 2)

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• powerful
• life
• power

Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further we are able to remove ourselves from the unconscious through directed functioning, the more readily a powerful counterposition can build up in the unconscious, and when this breaks out it may have disagreeable consequences. Carl Jung

• education
• disaster
• educates

Civilization is a race between disaster and education. H. G. Wells

• encouragement
• encouraging
• different

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) Mahatma Gandhi

• life
• respect
• words

Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass. Elizabeth Goudge

• civilization
• everything
• costly

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. Mary Wortley

• humanity
• consistency
• refinement

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. Robert Millikan

• history
• age
• hand

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. Kelly Millar

• brother
• men
• war

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo

• time
• acceptance
• rejection

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. Katharine Fullerton Gerould

• sick
• sickness
• making

Civilization is what makes you sick. Paul Gauguin

• men
• society
• perpetual

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. Sigmund Freud

• rock
• angry
• personal

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud

• caring
• political
• sick

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water. Paul Farmer

• freedom
• culture
• ordering

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. Will Durant

• die
• died
• orders

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant