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

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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

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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

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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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My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

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The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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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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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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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny.

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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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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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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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Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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