The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
quote by Franz Boas
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If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
quote by Fridjof Nansen
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Modern Dancing
Modern, modern, modern, modern dancing
Modern dancing, modern dancing
Modern dancing, modern
I see you acting modernly with the boys and girls
Exposure breeds discovery in the modern world
The 60's hairdos 90's eyes are just flashing lights
A touch of neon hinting class for the modern night
Modern dancing, modern dancing
Modern dancing, modern dancing
Dancing
Modern dancing, modern dancing
Modern dancing, modern
Mono vision tv face and determined eyes
The clothes are perfect the rips in place just the perfect size
Familiarity breeds contempt but it doesn't show
We've heard the music times before but it still makes you go
Modern dancing, modern dancing
Modern dancing, modern dancing
Modern dancing, dancing
....variations to fade....
song performed by by Men Without Hats
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Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
quote by Hideki Tojo
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I may now, I suppose, say it without offence: I think that the distrust of the new studies, at all events of the study of Modern History, was owing quite as much to the management of their advocates as to the conservative habits of the opponents.
William Stubbs in Seventeen lectures on the study of medieval and modern history and kindred subjects (1887)
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When I want to dissect a modern problem, I actually find many similar problems in ancient days. In fact, without the many outer layers of so-called modern civilization, the themes I find in old stories are more clear-cut. They are so visible and extreme. I am not saying that all historical eras are similar to today. But by using a comprehensible social structure such as we had in the past, it is much easier for me to convey or re-create modern situations.
Kaneto Shindo in Voices from the Japanese Cinema (1975)
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Sonnet: On Disobedience
The world excels in disobedience
In every walk of life, age, sex, moment;
Advice unheeded goes with persistence,
And ends in sustained heavy argument!
This trait / disease is spreading very fast,
Not sparing any nation in the world;
Obeisance stays a virtue of the past,
Belittled by the modern youth and old!
No wisdom of the elders is welcome;
All want to have the way one likes to tread;
Gone are the peace and hierarchy at home;
Distrust abounds in every sphere and road!
The Son of God showed what is obeisance;
The Word of God to most remains nuisance!
poem by John Celes
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In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
quote by Arthur Henderson
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Campaign Song
Boom boom boom
Boon boon boon
Bane bane bane
Your campaign song
Is too loud, bane
I am riding on boon
Good and fine days
Ignorant of intended ways
Boom your campaign song
It was too loud, bane
I barely could manage
To hear your message
I voted for the other candidate
Your Boom song was too loud
It was good in our ears in June
But you sang it till December
That even kids should remember
I choose otherwise, voted you out
Is Campaign song bane or boon?
poem by Benjamin Paa Willie
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If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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Modern Age
Well I found a road and off I sped
I met a man with no little toe and a real big head
Though I did not speak somehow I said
Where are you from? He said the modern age
And where are you from? I said the modern age
On the shore by the sea that was still lathering
I met a man in the business of hunting and gathering
Somehow we understood each other's blathering
And he said where are you from? I said the modern age
And where are you from? He said the modern age
Stopped at a light in my car
I asked the next car how they are
They say that we are fine and how are you?
I say that I am fine and thank you
I'm feeling fine in the modern age
Driving around in the modern age
Driving around in the modern age
song performed by by Frank Black
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It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
quote by Ronald Knox
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Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of its limitations and it's unworthiness to become the ideal civilization of the world.
quote by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Out of Africa
Written by: Wilfred C. Mellers Sunday, January 27,2002
Out of paradise where I’m from
Taken down to a little island
Brought forth the fruits of civilazation
Spread it to all modern nations
Now from my home in Jamaica
Forward to America
Blinded by the color of the lights
But still denied my human rights
Sweet land of my forefather’s birth
Once we conquered the for corners of the earth
Spread modern man across these lands
With only simple stone tools in our hands
This I know and you can trust
That once all nations bowed before us
Sweet gardens home of eden paradise
Yes my friends it once was so nice
poem by Wilfred Mellers
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We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
quote by Thor Heyerdahl
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
quote by Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
quote by John Buchan
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The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
quote by F.L. Lucas
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
quote by J.G. Stedman
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