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• I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

  Chuck D

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• Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself.

  Robert Pogue Harrison

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• Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist is given license, a priest is given permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.

  Clarice Lispector

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• Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

  Gregory David Roberts

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  I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

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  Tags in War, Civilization, Know

• The first sign of civilization is always trash.

  Neal Shusterman

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• Inter library loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

  Jo Walton

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  There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.

  Ludwig von Mises

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• The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

  David Hare

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  Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in chains.

  August Bebel

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  The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

  Gene Roddenberry

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  Tags in Measured, Civilization

• Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.

  Martin Cruz Smith

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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

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  Will Durant

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• Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.

  James Madison Jr

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  Tags in Freedom, Mankind, Civilization

• The perversion of “civilization” is its coming to be regarded as a substitute for religion.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  G. M. Trevelyan

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  Tags in Curiosity, Civilization, Scholarship

• To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

  Jonathan Sacks

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• New York… when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

  David Letterman

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• 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

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  Tags in Civilization, Together, School