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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Cynicism
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Self-Respect
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – B.F. Skinner

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Civilization

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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Civilization

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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Sport is a preserver of health. – Hippocrates

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I want my music to do the explaining. – Demi Lovato

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