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It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. ↗

— Charles Eastman

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Civilization is what makes you sick. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

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