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"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."
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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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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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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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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."
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Explore more quotes by Thomas Sowell
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
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"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
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"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
Politics
"Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty."
Talk
"Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated."
Money
"People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes."
Money
"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."
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"Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders."
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