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Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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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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The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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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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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

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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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...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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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

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

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

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

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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

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