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Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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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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K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

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