#civilization

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long. ↗

— James Lovelock

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The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

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For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

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Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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