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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization  (Vili Quotes) Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery  (Vili Quotes) All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought  (Vili Quotes) Real freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it  (Vili Quotes) Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences  (Vili Quotes) You think that a wall as solid as the Earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn  (Vili Quotes) Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law  (Vili Quotes) Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark  (Vili Quotes) The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world  (Vili Quotes) We think our civilization near it's meridian, but we are yet only at the cock crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in it's infancy  (Vili Quotes) The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual  (Vili Quotes) The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out  (Vili Quotes) In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known it's satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity  (Vili Quotes) As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions  (Vili Quotes) As Rome passed away, so, the West is passing away, from the same causes and in much the same way. What the Danube and Rhine were to Rome, the Rio Grande and Mediterranean are to America and Europe, the frontiers of a civilization no longer defended  (Vili Quotes) The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization  (Vili Quotes) The sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society  (Vili Quotes) I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom  (Vili Quotes) Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, north America was able within less than a century to equal, and even surpass, the civilization of Europe  (Vili Quotes) The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power - the gentleman  (Vili Quotes) Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third  (Vili Quotes) Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to it's rule and it's credit  (Vili Quotes) Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized  (Vili Quotes) Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is it's form rather than making progress being one of it's features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only  (Vili Quotes) If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued  (Vili Quotes) In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part  (Vili Quotes) The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community  (Vili Quotes) There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization  (Vili Quotes) In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book  (Vili Quotes) Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates  (Vili Quotes)
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