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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - Davi

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. – David Hare

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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

Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Civilization

Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

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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

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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? – Frank Moore Colby

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