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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  (Vili Quotes) There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization  (Vili Quotes) It didn’t work, so let’s do it some more’? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don’t know what they call it in civilian life  (Vili Quotes) I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers  (Vili Quotes) It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs  (Vili Quotes) Sometimes slavery is founded upon the inferiority of one race to another; and then it appears in its most agreeable garb, for the system may be necessary to tame and civilize a race of savages  (Vili Quotes) In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments. The people have my sympathies. I must address them directly  (Vili Quotes) And when we look closely, we find a system of morals which any civilised person today should surely find poisonous  (Vili Quotes) ... As the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world  (Vili Quotes) Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends  (Vili Quotes) We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism  (Vili Quotes) Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren’t  (Vili Quotes) Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past  (Vili Quotes) There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations  (Vili Quotes) I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens  (Vili Quotes) Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all  (Vili Quotes) The meaning of life for human beings is to serve one another for the survival of humanity and the advancement of civilization  (Vili Quotes) Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it  (Vili Quotes) Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin  (Vili Quotes) Age, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those that we have no longer the vigor to commit  (Vili Quotes) There died a myriad, and of the best among them, for an old bitch gone in the teeth, for a botched civilization  (Vili Quotes) Savagery is necessary every four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization  (Vili Quotes) Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings  (Vili Quotes) Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat  (Vili Quotes) Security, the chief pretence of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone’s head  (Vili Quotes) All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization  (Vili Quotes) We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society  (Vili Quotes) Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization  (Vili Quotes) What we don’t need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight  (Vili Quotes) Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential  (Vili Quotes)
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