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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
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The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
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The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.
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The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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