"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."

Civilization, Chaos, Liberty, Order

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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Civilization, First, Insult

"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Civilization, Knowledge, Beliefs, Logic

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Civilization, Values, Balance, Man

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Civilization, Truth, Power, Future, Regret

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Civilization, Animals

"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Civilization, Communication, Loss, Expression

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

George Orwell, British Author

Civilization, Evil, Heaven, Hell

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Civilization, Truth, Reason, Wisdom, Power

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Civilization, Wisdom, Power, Future, Inspirational

"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Civilization, Spiritual, Stupidity

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

People, Trouble, Wishes

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

Virtue, Hatred, May, Vice

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

Acting, Machine, Majority, Minority

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."

Art, Science, Philosophy

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Philosophy

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."

Law, Laws, Man, Needs

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."

"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near."

"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."

"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."