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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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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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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Civilization

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

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Civilization

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

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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. – George Saintsbury

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Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers… are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears. – Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), Der Rabbi Von Bacharach

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. – John Stuart Mill

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