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Civilization Quotes

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within"

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

"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."

"We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us."

"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized."

"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized."

"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"

"With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it a varnish of conventionalities hiding his barbaric core"

"Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself."

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law"

"Society itself is the work of minds seeking to master the mystery of man"

"Throughout history, population size and innovation levels are linked"

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

"Where there is no Law, there is no Freedom."

"For 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"

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