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

  Robert Pogue Harrison

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

  Shraga Silverstein

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

  Jonathan Sacks

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• Seriously, ‘Honey Boo Boo’ is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn’t mean it’s good.

  Adam Levine

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• A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

  Fareed Rafiq Zakaria

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• You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

  Shimon Peres

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• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  Flora Lewis

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• I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

  Ian Smith

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• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  Clifford D. Simak

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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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• The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn… tired of common sense and civilization.

  F. L. Lucas

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