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Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888), Table Talk (1877)
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each
other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in
their future.
Bourke Cockran
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to
rise in its place.
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), The Dance of Life
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up
it.
Henry Allen
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Jane Addams (1860 - 1935), Speech, Honolulu (1933)
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not
know everyone else.
Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human
life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all
good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that
he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
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