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A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. — Derrick Jensen

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else. — Theodore Roethke

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable. — H.W. Brands

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. — Fernand Braudel

Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood. — Edward Abbey

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. — Wendell Berry

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. — Oriana Fallaci

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization. — Vladimir Putin

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization. — Shulamith Firestone

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

All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived. — William Barrett

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. — Andre Maurois

No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man. — Kiran Nagarkar

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. — Dalai Lama

religion is a method of self-governance which allows a culture or civilization to invoke its own order by divine mandate. — Tom Watson

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. — Mary Blakely

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. — Ibn Khaldun

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning. — Sister Nivedita

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig Von Mises

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. — Roger Scruton

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson — H.W. Brands

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan) — Beth Fine

In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Society destroys your individuality, your soul. — Swami Dhyan Giten

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination. — James Hillman

When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself. — John Lukacs

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. — Susanne Katherina Langer

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation. — Derrick Jensen

Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. — Oriana Fallaci

Shaving was invented to kill time before a date. — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and whores. — Manu Joseph

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. — Elie Wiesel

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture. — John Eccles

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. — Alvar Aalto

We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked. — Jeffrey Rasley