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"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, 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."
"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward."
"Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance."
"People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge."
"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
"There is nothing more savage than modern civilization."
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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."
"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
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