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“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.”

Mean Nations Communication Civilization Draws Instruments Productions Improvement Rapids Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto Means Of Communication

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.”

World Should Mean Ideas War Involved Civilization Around The World Civil War Rejection Rejects Get Involved Isolationism

Author:Dan Quayle

“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”

“Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and righteousness. ...It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.”

People World Giving Mean Law Order Policy Victory Civilization Civilized Righteousness Foreign Policy Expansion

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage. It means that our character should take on the best of that which is American, and combine it with the best of that which is German. By doing this, we can best serve the American people and their civilization.”

People Should Mean Doe Character Civilization Healthy Favors Heritage

Author:Carl Schurz

“By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.”

Men Mean Next Civilization Vices Ashamed Vulgar Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

“What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?”

World Mean Doe Civilization

Author:Serj Tankian

“Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for all since the beginning of mankind and throughout civilization. I have yet to feel the urge to argue politics: it reminds me of getting off the freeway to sit in raging traffic.”

Men Feels Mean Has Beens Ends Joy Realizing Mankind Civilization Authority Solutions Ultimate Harmony Fellows Rage Arguing Urges Traffic Fellow Man Peace And Harmony Freeways

Author:Criss Jami

“Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.”

Men Mean Doe Has Beens Reality Seems Able Cases Civilization Contact Dawn Mask Idealism Deprived Slender Recompense Duplicity Deviousness

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.”

Should Mean Civilization Activity Treated Remembered Commerce Senior

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.”

People Mean Feelings Crime Civilization Savages Theft Harps Celtic Bards

Book:Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts

Source: Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts

“Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.”

World Years Mean Doe Order Social Produce Civilization Destruction Essence Productions Socialism Ownership Pioneers Social Order Spoilers

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist