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Civilization Quotes

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

"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful"

"The foundation of empire is art and science"

"The more humanity advances the more it is degraded."

"A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean."

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world"

"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."

"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste"

"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays"

"Human freedom is an artifact of the organization of human society. "

"Fiction isn’t bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function"

"The greatest advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur "

"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself"

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."

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