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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner

Human, Brain, Social

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
Leslie Caron

Another, Difficult, Marry

There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.
William Graham Sumner

Power, Made, America

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
Richard H. Davis

Place, Fine, Spoiled

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
Chuck D.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Skin, Barbarism, Lamb

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft

Mind, Progress, Wealth

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
Christopher Dawson

Age, Great, History

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
Christopher Dawson

Past, Passion, Doubt

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
Christopher Dawson

Freedom, Political, Common

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
Paul Harris

Fear, Cold, Emotion

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
Malcolm Lowry

Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.
Pierre Schaeffer

Themselves, Barbarians

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Ludwig von Mises

Men, War, Succeed

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Ludwig von Mises

Nature, Human, Working

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr

Society, Knowledge, Through

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
John Boyd Orr

Peace, Age, Between

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
John Boyd Orr

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
John Boyd Orr

Knowledge, Law, Small

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
George P. Baker

Through, Find, Action

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
Felix Adler

Country, Attention, Almost

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.
Abel Ferrara

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
Joseph Rotblat

Time, History, Single

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.
Joseph Rotblat

War, Reality, May

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
Stanley Crouch

War, Hate, High

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Elihu Root

Real, Opinion, Progress

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
L. Neil Smith

Today, Human, Sea

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Capitalism, Market, Invention

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Socialism, Capitalism, Market

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Tests, Criminals, Treatment

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