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 My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies
  Mark Twain

 New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
  David Letterman

 No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
  Mahatma Gandhi

 No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse
  Theodore Roosevelt

 Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now
  Arnold Toynbee

 On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
  Ignazio Silone

 Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason
  Theodore Dreiser

 Our civilization lacks humane feeling. We are humans who are insufficiently humane! We must realize that and seek to find a new spirit. We have lost the sight of this ideal because we are solely occupied with thoughts of men instead of remembering th

 People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization
  Agnes Repplier

 Property is the pivot of civilization

 Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
  Thomas Henry Huxley

 The beginning of civilization is marked by an intense legality; that legality is the very condition of its existence, the bond which ties it together; but that legality - that tendency to impose a settled customary yoke upon all men and all actions -
  Walter Bagehot

 The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
  Pearl S. Buck

 The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

 The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
  Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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