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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

—Havelock Ellis

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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

—Henry Allen

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But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

—Jane Addams

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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

—Julian Jaynes

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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

—Max Nordau

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

—Oscar Wilde

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

—Robert Ingersoll

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

—Will Durant

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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

—Will Rogers

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

—Unknown

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In the conflict between Israelis and Arabs you have wounded civilizations — the Arabs have been wounded in their dealings with the West, and an insecure Jewish people have gone through terrible disasters and traumas. There is no end to the Jewish quest for security, and there is no end for the Arab quest for redress and dignity. It is very difficult to reconcile the two.

—Itamar Rabinovich

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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

—Ambrose Bierce

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