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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"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."
"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!"
"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."
"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."
"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
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