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 "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
  H. P Lovecraft

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

 A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization

 A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
  Samuel Johnson

 A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
  Ariel Durant

 A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

 All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war

 All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
  Albert Einstein

 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  Oscar Wilde

 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  George Clemenceau

 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  George Clemenceau

 America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
  John O'Hara

 Art is the signature of civilizations.
  Beverly Sills

 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
  Charles Lindbergh


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