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

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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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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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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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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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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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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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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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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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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

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

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I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

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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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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

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

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