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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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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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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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