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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
"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!"
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"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."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"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."
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"I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?"
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
"For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."
"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
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