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Quotes from Kalki : or The Future of Civilization — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1888–1975 India

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The provincial cultures of the past and the present have not always been loyal to the true interests of the human race.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

The world today is tending to function as one organism.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

It is true that internationalism is growing. Economists warn us that war does not pay. It is bad business.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

The East and the West are not so sharply divided as the alarmists would make us believe.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

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.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

Among the races, religions, and nations which live side by side on the small globe, there is not that sense of fellowship necessary for good life. They rather feel themselves to be antagonistic forces.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

The new nearness into which we are drawn has not meant increasing happiness and diminishing friction, since we are not mentally and spiritually prepared for the meeting.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

So long as this devil-dance does not disgust us, we cannot pretend to be civilized.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

If there is a single goal for all civilization, it does not mean that all shall speak a common tongue or profess a common creed, or that all shall live under a single government, or all shall follow an unchanging pattern in customs and manners.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

To approve of warfare but criticize its methods, it has been well said is like approving of the wolf eating the lamb but criticizing the table-manners. War is war and not a game of sport to be played according to rules.

Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.