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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 physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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

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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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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

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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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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

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

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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

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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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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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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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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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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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