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

— Naguib Mahfouz

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. ↗

— Randall Terry

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How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

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One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

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