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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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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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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards 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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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

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

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

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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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One cannot deny that in former times man's life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man's life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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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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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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A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

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