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  • Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. -- Will Durant
  • Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. -- Will Durant
  • In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. -- Elon Musk
  • Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. -- Alexander Herzen
  • At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau propounded the need for contracts between the savage and society. The savage also shows that in order to understand the need for civilization and culture, mankind needs to see barbarism. One could not exist without the other. -- Bruno Dumont
  • Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. -- Orson Welles
  • Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos -- Will Durant
  • ... love was an illusion which civilization had produced to give a little order to the frequency of the sex act. -- Christer Kihlman
  • If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. -- Orson Welles
  • Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. -- Ellen Key
  • What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning. -- Jose Arguelles
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