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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."
"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."
"The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity."
"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."
"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."
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