"Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny."
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"The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world."
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"The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization."
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"Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves."
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"Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework."
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"Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages."
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"There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped."
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"Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization."
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"Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates."
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"We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants."
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"I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked."
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"What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?"
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"Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting."
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"But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization."
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"You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing."
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"Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions."
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"In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise."
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"Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up."
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"The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate."
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"The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization."
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