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• We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Mind

  "On Cat Videos and Human Rights" by Christina Gagnier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2010.

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• Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

  Shirley Hazzard

  America, Secret, May

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• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

  William Booth

  Work, Men, Tasks

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”

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• You can't leave civilization behind entirely.

  Dirk Benedict

  Behinds

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• In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Play, Russia, Iran

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• Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

  Zahi Hawass

  Culture, Pieces, Lost

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• Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Community, Healthy

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• As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

  John Dewey

  Art, Long, Insecurity

  John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Issues, Confusion

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• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

  George William Curtis

  Dark, Light, Justice

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• No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Safety, Needs

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• It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Growth, Important, Principles

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Conscious" Direction and the Growth of Reason (ch. 9), 1952.

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• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, War, Hypocrisy

  Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.2

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• Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Moving, People, Needs

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• Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  War, Believe, Past

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• By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

  Solomon Schechter

  Mean, Men, Vulgarity Is

  Solomon Schechter (1909). “Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln Centennial Celebration of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America”

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• Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Excess, Barbarism

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• A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Luxury, Selfishness, Ease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.227

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• Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Doe, Lapses, Reactions

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• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Government, Culture, Ugly

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

  Christopher Dawson

  Political, Levels, Common

  Christopher Dawson (2010). “The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.95, CUA Press

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• No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It is dedicated to peace, civilization and the triumphs of industry. It is a demonstration of fraternity and the harbinger of a better age-a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be best honored and well rewarded.

  Peter J. McGuire

  War, Honor, Age

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• The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Law, Choices, World

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.363, Best Books on

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• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  Fannie Farmer

  Food, Cooking, Progress

  Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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