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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

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... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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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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I think human arrogance will be the demise of civilization.

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I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation.

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Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

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In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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