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- Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888), Table Talk (1877)
- The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), The Dance of Life
- Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
- Clifford Stoll
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), In Stobaeus, Florilegium
- I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
- Al Capone (1899 - 1947), In Allsop, The Bootleggers (1961)
- He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
- William Congreve (1670 - 1729), Love for Love (1695)
- Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
- Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940), Anarchism (1910)
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