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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else."
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."
"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
"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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"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
"Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all."
"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."
"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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