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"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
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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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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
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"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
Psychology
"Anatomy is destiny."
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"Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."
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"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
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"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
Love
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
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"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
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"The ego is not master in its own house."
Ego
"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
Science
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