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"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
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"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
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"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."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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"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."
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"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
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"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
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"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization."
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"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species."
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"A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car."
Car
"Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish."
Civilization
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
Day
"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope."
Science
"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
Technology
"Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?"
Man
"Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose."
People
"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
Happiness
"It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine."
Life
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