Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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