"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them." — François-René de Chateaubriand

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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.… — Julian Assange
• Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the… — Margaret Atwood
• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push… — Irving Babbitt
• Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that… — Edward Abbey
• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum
• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
• Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by… — Ambrose Bierce

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