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"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
"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!"
"We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse."
"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them."
"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."
"The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization."
"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
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"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."
"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."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."
"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."
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