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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
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"Civilization and profit go hand in hand."
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"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."
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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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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
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"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."
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"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."
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"If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
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"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 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
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
Strength
"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
"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
Hurt
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
History
"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
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
Power
"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
Man
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
Politics
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