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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each
other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their
future.
Bourke Cockran
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its
place.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Henry Allen
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know
everyone else.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he
claims for himself.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you
in a new way.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929