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"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
"Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses."
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
"The collective consciousness of mankind defines the existence and sustainability of this civilization."
"Civilization in its present form hasn't got long."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
"The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented."
"There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City."
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"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
"The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk."
"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
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