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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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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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"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
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