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Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Above Appropriation Civilization Civilizations Distinguishes Every Founded Rise Rise Above Single Sins Violence Who

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You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the vantage point of quarter century in time? We won the war in a military sense; but in a broader sense, it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Ask Back Before Broader Century Civilization Conclusions Journals Less Looking Looking Back Lost Me Military Our Point Quarter Respected Secure Seems Sense Than Time Vantage War Western Western Civilization Won World World War World War Ii You

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Civilization Freedom Lies Real Real Freedom Wildness

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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Aircraft Civilization Destroying Expected Loved Science Seen Serve Them

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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Civilization Freedom Lies Real Real Freedom Wildness

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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Believe Civilization Contact Continue Cut Develops Earth Essential Even Find Long Lose More More And More Off Our Out Primitive Progress Root Roots Sap Survive Tree Us Very Which Without

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Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Background Based Cannot Centuries Civilization Created Forget Human Human Life Life Millions Must Never Never Forget Ourselves Primitive Separate Should We Cannot Wildness

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We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Again Believe Body Cheer Civilization Confidence Contagious Cure Diseases Fairness Good Good Cheer Healthy Hear Ills Justice Labor Make Much Mutual Revolution Strong Times Ultimately Unrest Will Word World I Believe I Believe That

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I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.

~Charles M. Schwab

Topics: Among Because Before Civilization Confidence Cooperation Everything Factor Matter May Men Mention Need Never Only Ranks Relative Survive Today Underlying Vital Who Will Willing Work Worked

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A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

~Charles Marion Russell

Topics: Calls Civilization Destroys Pioneer Things

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