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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
George Orwell
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization”
George Bernard Shaw
“My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies”
Mark Twain
“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”
Abraham Flexner
“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
Will Rogers
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.”
Stephen Wright
“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character”
Henry Louis Mencken
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