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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing i

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. – Vance Havner

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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs. – Vance Havner

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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home. – Vance Havner

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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. – John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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