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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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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
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"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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"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!"
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"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."
Religion
"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
Fact
"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
Civilization
"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."
Act
"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."
Beginning
"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."
Moon
"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
Knowledge
"For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period."
Education
"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
Optimism
"Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life."
Life
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