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"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"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!"
"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."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure."
"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
"Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not."
"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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"Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right."
"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization."
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