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A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices. |
Ayn Rand |
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. |
Samuel Johnson |
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution |
Havelock Ellis |
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All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. |
Albert Einstein |
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. |
Oscar Wilde |
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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Because I have confidence in the power of truths and of spirit, I believe in the future of mankind.- The Philosophy of Civilization. |
Albert Schweitzer |
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos |
Will Durant |
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. |
Will Durant |
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Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. |
Robert Green Ingersoll |
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities |
Mark Twain |
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Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity |
Will Durant |
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. |
Ayn Rand |
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. |
Timothy Leary |
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Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest |
Emile Zola |
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will |
Winston Churchill |
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. |
Richard Bach |
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