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"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"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!"
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."
"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."
"It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past."
"Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out."
"The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism."
"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
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