"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."

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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 first requisite of civilization is that of justice."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."

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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."

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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."

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"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."

"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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"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

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"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."