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"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
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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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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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"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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"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others."
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"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed."
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"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."
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"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
Liberty
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
Power
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."
Life
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
Power
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
Appearance
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."
Virtue
"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered."
Thought
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
Circumstance
"The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly."
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