Quote by Elbert Hubbard
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. - Elbert Hubbard

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

Other quotes by Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard

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Technology
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. – Elbert Hubbard

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Violence
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Civilization

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. – Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul H

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Civilization

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization

Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it…. I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions. – Author Unknown

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Civilization

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You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food. – Tom Colicchio

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