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“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
Sigmund Freud
“To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.”
Bertrand Russell
“Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, 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”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies”
Mark Twain
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
L. Frank Baum
“There can be no high civility without a deep morality”
“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.”
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
George Orwell
