#civilization

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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