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"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."
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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
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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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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."
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"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
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"Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."
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"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
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"Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
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"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
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"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
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"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."
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"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
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