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Civilization Quotes - III

Civilization Quotes - III

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. - Karl Marx

2. Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.- Winston Churchill

3. Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. - Victor Hugo

4. The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. - John Muir

5. The first requisite of civilization is that of justice. - Sigmund Freud

6. Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization. - Maria Montessori

7. Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. - Mao Zedong

8. We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny. - C. V. Raman.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.