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Citizens associate the art of diplomacy with peace, without considering that there is as much cruelty in diplomacy as on the battlefield.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

City is a madhouse! Don’t stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

– Edward HoaglandRate it:

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt

– Mahathma GandhiRate it:

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

– Howard ZinnRate it:

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

– A.E. SamaanRate it:

Civilian power establishes all institutions of the state that determine the people's living standards and the stability of society; on the contrary, wrong forces and invisible anarchy destroy that silently.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Civilisation displays and endorses the conception of love, harmony, justice, and equal rights for everyone regardless of the discrimination; conversely, one feels that the West indeed becomes civilised; however, one seems not to believe that the West behaves the same with others. Civilisation is still to achieve and apply as its real conception.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

– Mary Wortley MontaguRate it:

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

– Malcolm MuggeridgeRate it:

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

– Alfred North WhiteheadRate it:

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

– Alfred North WhiteheadRate it:

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

– Will DurantRate it:

Civilization culminates in the power-press. It is the grand total of the difference between a boastful United Statian and a beastly Hottentot, —between Yankee Doodle and Timbucktoodle

– Little RockRate it:

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

– Amos Bronson AlcottRate it:

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

– Will DurantRate it:

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

– Luther Standing BearRate it:

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

– Mark TwainRate it:

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

– Jane AddamsRate it:

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

– Arnold ToynbeeRate it:

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

– Sigmund FreudRate it:

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

– Herbert SpencerRate it:

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