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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. - B.F. Ski

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. – B.F. Skinner

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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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Civilization

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

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Civilization

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Civilization

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. – Hervey Allen

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Civilization

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