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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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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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"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."
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"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!"
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"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."
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"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."
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"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."
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"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."
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"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
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"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others."
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"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."
Change
"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."
Truth
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Evil
"Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent."
Life
"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
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
Dream
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
Strength
"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
Man
"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
Appreciation
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