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"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, 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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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
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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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"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt."
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"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."
People
"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
Politics
"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."
Politics
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