America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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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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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else.. All our lauded technological progress our very civilization is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion.... Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the f
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The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong int
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.
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Anglo Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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You can't say civilization don't advance.. In every war they kill you in a new way.
Civilization is a transient sickness.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
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(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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