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Quote by David Hare
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - Davi

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

Other quotes by David Hare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. – David Hare

Category:
Poetry
Author
David Hare
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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. – David Hare

Category:
Solutions
Author
David Hare
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

Category:
Civilization

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Civilization

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
Civilization

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
Sympathy

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. – Mary Schmich

Category:
movies

The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost. – Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack

Category:
Internet

Groups of people are like a massive Rock, Paper, Scissors war. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

Category:
People