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"Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not."
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"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
"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!"
"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."
"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure."
"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit 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."
"In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear."
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"Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up."
"Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not."
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