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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
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Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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...Western Civilization began to expand in 976....The economic expansion was achieved chiefly by specialization and exchange... commercialization.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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