Civilization

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
 Alfred North Whitehead
 Intro to Math, 1911

The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals.
 Alfred North Whitehead
 Adventures of Ideas,

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops -no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
 Ralph W Emerson
 1870

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
 Havelock Ellis
 Essays of Love , 1922

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy... to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music...
 John Adams
 1780

Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
 

Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production.
 Winston Churchill
 1929

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