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"The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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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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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present 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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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"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."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
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