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There’s a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don’t much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The diet schmeer is the end of civilisation as we know it.

—David Pratt

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…if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

—Ann Leckie

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Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife

—Scott Lynch

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Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself....

—E.M. Forster

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This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, ‘When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.’ But the serious critique of Zuma is...

—Mark Gevisser

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The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and moved on, the cities sank back into the sand, the dust settled over...

—Alfred Rosenberg

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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

—Sigmund Freud

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We were the only humans – the only forms of life, in fact – for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

—Heather James

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Civilized people don’t feel.

—Mervyn Peake

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Our civilisation being what it is, you’ve got to spent eight hours out of every twenty-four as a mixture between an imbecile and a sewing machine. It’s very disagreeable, I know. It’s humiliating and disgusting....

—Aldous Huxley

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Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu’un poisson sans bicyclette.

—Pierre Desproges

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La prévoyance commence lorsque nous acceptons que nous sommes maintenant arrivés à créés une civilisation du risque.

—Jacques Ellul

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The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the ‘savages’ of colonial days, who could...

—Mark Curtis

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The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet...

—Arundhati Roy

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In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

—Yukichi Fukuzawa

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Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of...

—Jack Donovan

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Simon stopped listening. He realised he’d had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in...

—L. Ashley

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Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered...

—Bacharuddin Jusuf

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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable...

—Jack Donovan

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The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of years. If we could ever get to the stage where somebody could say,...

—Noam Chomsky

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There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

—Adam Smith

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Civilisations fall. People keep going.

—Daniel H.

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It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each...

—Robert Peate

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The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

—Émile Zola

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I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but...

—Richard Calland

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I have a feeling that we’ve seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we’re looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were,...

—Alexander McCall Smith

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Il ne peut y avoir une civilisation mondiale puisque la civilisation implique la coexistence de cultures offrant entre elles le maximum de diversité.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss

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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

—Samuel Johnson

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And I’ll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people,...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in...

—Frank Herbert

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You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

—Albert Camus

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Girls say to me, very reasonably, ‘why isn’t it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?’ Well, my reply is I was once a little boy – I...

—William Golding

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As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations,...

—Jeremy Griffith

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On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of civilisation had long since ebbed, leaving these scattered wrecks on the...

—Austen Henry

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All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

—Richard Lamm

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