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• We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb
  or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation....
• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization.
  It was greater before there was any civilization. -- Sigmund Freud...
• Civilization: Biggest syntax error in history!
• The more advanced the civilization, the less powerful the individual.
• Civilization Law #1: Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations one can do without thinking about them.
• It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpick
  was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane....
• The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the moon represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race.
  Even if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the goal....
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...