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

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

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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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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

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

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

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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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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

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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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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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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

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

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

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