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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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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. – Bryan White

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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