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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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

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What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver.

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

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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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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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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

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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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The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

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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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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

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Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

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Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

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