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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

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Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

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I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

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Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

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