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"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
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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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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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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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"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
History
"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
Man
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
Creativity
"To reject the word is to reject the human search."
Reflection
"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
Appreciation
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
Power
"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
Civilization
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
Dream
"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."
Truth
"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
Government
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