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"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"
"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."
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"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
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