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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. -- Charles Baudelaire
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. -- Will Rogers
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. -- Ulysses S. Grant
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
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. -- Hideki Tojo
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization -- Samuel Johnson
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. -- Samuel Johnson
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. -- Chen Guangcheng
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey! -- Mark Twain
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. -- Simone Weil
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! -- Mark Twain
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization. -- Mark Pesce
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity. -- Tryon Edwards
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. -- Leyla Zana
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization! -- Bill Walton
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. -- Frank Knox
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. -- William Gilmore Simms
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
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization. -- Joel Augustus Rogers
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure. -- Ed Ayres
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. -- Charles Baudelaire
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. -- Victor Hugo
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