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"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"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!"
"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
"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."
"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion."
"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
"Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is."
"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
"Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion."
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