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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
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"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."
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"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
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"The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more."
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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
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"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages."
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"Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people."
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"Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent."
Life
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
Marriage
"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
Change
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
Civilization
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
Politics
"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
Civilization
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
Creativity
"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt
"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
Peace
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
History
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