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"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, 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."

"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."

"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."

"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."

"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."

"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."

"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."

"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."

"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!"
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"We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism."
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