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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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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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

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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

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Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

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

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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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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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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

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The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

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