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"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed."
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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

"Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future."

"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."

"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."

"In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down the street is a walking bar code. You can tell where their clothes are from, how much they cost, which designer made which shoe, which shop you bought each item from. Everything is civilized and tagged and valued and numbered and put in it's place. Whereas in India, the wilderness still exists-the unindoctrinated wilderness of the mind, full of untold secrets and wild imaginings."

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."

"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."
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