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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Civilization and profit go hand in hand. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. ↗

— Will Durant

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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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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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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. ↗

— Steve Wynn

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