Civilization

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by Emma GoldmanMother of Revolutionary, Socia...

from What I Believe

As a promoter of individual liberty, human well-being and social harmony, which alone constitute real order, government stands condemned by all the great men of the world.

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by Ezra J. MishanEnglish Economist best Known f...

from Costs of Economic Growth

The chief features of his [the city's engineer's] plan are based on what he aptly calls 'pistol architecture,' and includes provisions for no-shooting precincts fenced high with steel, the construction of circular and wavy road design to increase the difficulties of gun-dueling, the erection of high shatter-proof glass screens running down the centers of roads to prevent effective cross-firing, and the setting up of heavily protected television cameras at all strategic positions in the towns in order to relay information twenty-four hours a day to a vast new centralized police force equipped with fleets of helicopters. (From: Part Two, Chapter 8: External Diseconomies and Sep....)

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by George OrwellEnglish Novelist, Essayist, Jo...

from Duty to Stand Aside

Civilization now rests upon force. It rests not only on guns and bombing planes, but on prisons, concentration camps, and the policeman's truncheon.... [But] the use of force makes real progress impossible. The good society is one in which human beings are equal and in which they cooperate with one another willingly and not because of fear or economic compulsion. (From: Chapter 9: Conclusion, Page 144..)

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by John ReaderAuthor and Scholar of African ...

from AfricaA Biography of a Continent

Is there perhaps an alternative management strategy, more practical than ideological, that would direct the growth of complex societies along routes that rendered monumental "signposts to permanence" unnecessary? (From: Part 4: African Civilizations, Chapter 23: Cities ....)

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by Henry Stephens SaltEnglish Writer, Vegetarian, An...

from Seventy Years Among Savages

Are we, then, a civilized people? Has the Man of today, still living by bloodshed, still striving to grow rich at the expense of his neighbor, still using torture in punishment, still seeking sport in destruction, still waging fratricidal wars, and, while making a hell on earth, claiming for himself an eternal heaven hereafter—has this selfish, predatory being arrived at a state of “civilization”? (From: Chapter 17: The Talisman, Page 239..)

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by Margaret SangerAmerican Birth Control Activis...

from Chicago Address to Women

...the whole history of Civilization is the history of the struggle between those obeying the old laws and those establishing the new.

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by Luigi SturzoItalian Catholic Priest, Promi...

from Neither Liberty Nor Bread

When there is a conflict between moral and political law, should not moral law have the last word? (From: Section VII: Foreign Affairs, Chapter 46: Politics....)

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