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| Education is the transmission of civilization. | | Will Durant | |
| Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
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| Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. | | John Stuart Mill | |
| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. | | Albert Einstein | |
| If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec | | John Stuart Mill | |
| In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. | | Sigmund Freud | |
| Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. | | Victor Hugo | |
| My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies | | Mark Twain | |
| Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization | | George Bernard Shaw | |
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| No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th | | Albert Schweitzer | |
| The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. | | Karl Marx | |
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| The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons | | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
